# dig lookup multiple hosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 5, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dig-lookup-multiple-hosts/29205 "2018-12-05T18:55:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rjwagner.dba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@rjwagner.dba](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rjwagner.dba)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dig-lookup-multiple-hosts/29205/1 "2018-12-05T18:55:46Z")
Hey all - I’m trying to lookup the IPs for a list of FQDNs. The dig lookup is close to what I need, but it appears to return a list of IPs for a single FQDN; when using with\_items, it yields each of the IPs for that FQDN ([https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/plugins/lookup/dig.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/plugins/lookup/dig.html)). Any idea how I can use with\_items to iterate over the list of FQDNs and store the resulting list of IPs? Something sort of like: ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dig-lookup-multiple-hosts/29205/2 "2018-12-05T20:08:20Z")
I'm might misunderstand you question, but if you turn it around I think get your answer   - debug: msg='IP for {{ item }} is {{ lookup('dig', item) }}'     with\_items: "{{ db\_hosts }}" ---
**Author:** ![rjwagner.dba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@rjwagner.dba](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rjwagner.dba)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dig-lookup-multiple-hosts/29205/3 "2018-12-05T23:16:05Z")
Thanks Kai. That worked. I think I don’t quite understand lookup plugins (aside from with\_items). I’ll keep researching. Rob