ansible.windows.win_dns_client module – Configures DNS lookup on Windows hosts

Note

This module is part of the ansible.windows collection (version 3.2.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ansible.windows.win_dns_client.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

adapter_names

list / elements=string / required

Adapter name or list of adapter names for which to manage DNS settings (’*’ is supported as a wildcard value).

The adapter name used is the connection caption in the Network Control Panel or the InterfaceAlias of Get-DnsClientServerAddress.

dns_servers

aliases: ipv4_addresses, ip_addresses, addresses

list / elements=string / required

Single or ordered list of DNS servers (IPv4 and IPv6 addresses) to configure for lookup.

An empty list will configure the adapter to use the DHCP-assigned values on connections where DHCP is enabled, or disable DNS lookup on statically-configured connections.

IPv6 DNS servers can only be set on Windows Server 2012 or newer, older hosts can only set IPv4 addresses.

suffix_search_list

list / elements=string

added in ansible.windows 3.1.0

Specifies a list of global suffixes that can be used in the specified order by the DNS client for resolving the IP address.

Examples

- name: Set a single address on the adapter named Ethernet
  ansible.windows.win_dns_client:
    adapter_names: Ethernet
    dns_servers: 192.168.34.5

- name: Set multiple lookup addresses on all visible adapters (usually physical adapters that are in the Up state), with debug logging to a file
  ansible.windows.win_dns_client:
    adapter_names: '*'
    dns_servers:
      - 192.168.34.5
      - 192.168.34.6
    suffix_search_list:
      - "corp.contoso.com"
      - "na.corp.contoso.com"
    log_path: C:\dns_log.txt

- name: Set IPv6 DNS servers on the adapter named Ethernet
  ansible.windows.win_dns_client:
    adapter_names: Ethernet
    dns_servers:
      - '2001:db8::2'
      - '2001:db8::3'

- name: Configure all adapters whose names begin with Ethernet to use DHCP-assigned DNS values
  ansible.windows.win_dns_client:
    adapter_names: 'Ethernet*'
    dns_servers: []

Authors

  • Matt Davis (@nitzmahone)

  • Brian Scholer (@briantist)