delegate_to and ansible_host

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Hi all.
I have a problem with delegate_to.
I use a role which governs users, and it has a delegated task that gathers getent facts from a specific server, let’s say ‘getent-server’

Everything works fine until I try to apply this role to an unresolvable host, let’s say ‘ur-host’ by using ‘–limit ur-host -e ansible_host=$ip_addr’. In this case delegation does not work, or rather task gets delegated to ‘ur-host’ itself instead of ‘getent-server’. How can I make delegation work in these conditions?

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All host need to exist in the inventory for Ansible to work, thats just how Ansible works.

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All hosts are already in the inventory. The delegation breaks when ansible_host variable is given on the command line.