nsupdate - Manage DNS records.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis
Requirements (on host that executes module)
Options
Examples
Return Values
- Status

Synopsis

Create, update and remove DNS records using DDNS updates
DDNS works well with both bind and Microsoft DNS (see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961412.aspx)

Requirements (on host that executes module)

dnspython

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
key_algorithm	no	hmac-md5	HMAC-MD5.SIG-ALG.REG.INT hmac-md5 hmac-sha1 hmac-sha224 hmac-sha256 hamc-sha384 hmac-sha512	Specify key algorithm used by `key_secret`.
key_name	no			Use TSIG key name to authenticate against DNS `server`
key_secret	no			Use TSIG key secret, associated with `key_name`, to authenticate against `server`
record	yes			Sets the DNS record to modify.
server	yes			Apply DNS modification on this server.
state	no	present	present absent	Manage DNS record.
ttl	no	3600		Sets the record TTL.
type	no	A		Sets the record type.
value	no	None		Sets the record value.
zone	yes			DNS record will be modified on this `zone`.

Examples

- name: Add or modify ansible.example.org A to 192.168.1.1"
  nsupdate:
    key_name: "nsupdate"
    key_secret: "+bFQtBCta7j2vWkjPkAFtgA=="
    server: "10.1.1.1"
    zone: "example.org"
    record: "ansible"
    value: "192.168.1.1"

- name: Remove puppet.example.org CNAME
  nsupdate:
    key_name: "nsupdate"
    key_secret: "+bFQtBCta7j2vWkjPkAFtgA=="
    server: "10.1.1.1"
    zone: "example.org"
    record: "puppet"
    type: "CNAME"
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name	description	returned	type	sample
changed	If module has modified record	success	string
dns_rc	dnspython return code	always	int	4
dns_rc_str	dnspython return code (string representation)	always	string	REFUSED
record	DNS record	success	string	ansible
ttl	DNS record TTL	success	int	86400
type	DNS record type	success	string	CNAME
value	DNS record value	success	string	192.168.1.1
zone	DNS record zone	success	string	example.org.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/nsupdate_module.html