# How to easily configure DNS and NTP settings on my clients?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-easily-configure-dns-and-ntp-settings-on-my-clients/22201>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 3, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-easily-configure-dns-and-ntp-settings-on-my-clients/22201 "2016-08-03T11:29:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jorg\_Kastning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@Jorg\_Kastning](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jorg_Kastning)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-easily-configure-dns-and-ntp-settings-on-my-clients/22201/1 "2016-08-03T11:29:09Z")

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Hello,

I’m still new to ansible and have a lot of questions on my mind. Maybe someone could answer two of them.

In my environment I have a lot of Red Hat and some SUSE servers. I’d like to use ansible to configure the settings for DNS and NTP on these hosts. To get the most out of a tool like ansible I assume that there must be some kind of module where I could define the values for my DNS and NTP servers and ansible discovers the target operating system and sets the desired values properly. But I didn’t find any module to do so.

For an example, I would not like to create seperate plays for the different systems to tell them on Red Hat put the values there and on SUSE put them somewhere else. I simply like to play something like “set DNS to 192.168.1.1 and NTP to 192.168.1.2 on all hosts in my inventory”. I think about something like the “package”-module for package installation on different operating systems.

I would appreciate if someone could give an example on how to do that.

Regards,  
Joerg