# can't fire and forget from a list - looking for other options

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-fire-and-forget-from-a-list-looking-for-other-options/17517>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 14, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-fire-and-forget-from-a-list-looking-for-other-options/17517 "2015-02-14T21:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Fast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b3f665/32.png) [@Larry\_Fast](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Larry_Fast)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-fire-and-forget-from-a-list-looking-for-other-options/17517/1 "2015-02-14T21:15:11Z")

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I’m trying to work around the following limitation: lookup plugins (with\_\*) cannot be used with async tasks

My objective is to startup a set of listeners on a set of servers using socat. My thwarted plan was  
Host\_vars/hostname  
listeners: [234, 567, 890]

- name: setup listeners  
command: socat TCP-LISTEN:{{ item }},crlf,fork GOPEN:/dev/null  
with\_items: listeners  
async: 10  
poll: 0

Any suggestions on how I could rework my approach?