community.windows.win_dns_record – Manage Windows Server DNS records

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples

Synopsis

• Manage DNS records within an existing Windows Server DNS zone.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• This module requires Windows 8, Server 2012, or newer.

Parameters

Examples

# Demonstrate creating a matching A and PTR record.

- name: Create database server record
  community.windows.win_dns_record:
    name: "cgyl1404p.amer.example.com"
    type: "A"
    value: "10.1.1.1"
    zone: "amer.example.com"

- name: Create matching PTR record
  community.windows.win_dns_record:
    name: "1.1.1"
    type: "PTR"
    value: "db1"
    zone: "10.in-addr.arpa"

# Demonstrate replacing an A record with a CNAME

- name: Remove static record
  community.windows.win_dns_record:
    name: "db1"
    type: "A"
    state: absent
    zone: "amer.example.com"

- name: Create database server alias
  community.windows.win_dns_record:
    name: "db1"
    type: "CNAME"
    value: "cgyl1404p.amer.example.com"
    zone: "amer.example.com"

# Demonstrate creating multiple A records for the same name

- name: Create multiple A record values for www
  community.windows.win_dns_record:
    name: "www"
    type: "A"
    values:
      - 10.0.42.5
      - 10.0.42.6
      - 10.0.42.7
    zone: "example.com"

# Demonstrates a partial update (replace some existing values with new ones)
# for a pre-existing name

- name: Update www host with new addresses
  community.windows.win_dns_record:
    name: "www"
    type: "A"
    values:
      - 10.0.42.5  # this old value was kept (others removed)
      - 10.0.42.12  # this new value was added
    zone: "example.com"

# Demonstrate creating a SRV record

- name: Creating a SRV record with port number and priority
  community.windows.win_dns_record:
    name: "test"
    priority: 5
    port: 995
    state: present
    type: "SRV"
    weight: 2
    value: "amer.example.com"
    zone: "example.com"

# Demonstrate creating a NS record with multiple values

- name: Creating NS record
  community.windows.win_dns_record:
    name: "ansible.prog"
    state: present
    type: "NS"
    values:
      - 10.0.0.1
      - 10.0.0.2
      - 10.0.0.3
      - 10.0.0.4
    zone: "example.com"

Authors

• John Nelson (@johnboy2)