# How to get response of Ansible telnet module **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-response-of-ansible-telnet-module/33977 "2020-10-06T20:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Easy\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Easy\_King](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Easy_King)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-response-of-ansible-telnet-module/33977/1 "2020-10-06T20:48:49Z")
Below are couple of IP addresses and their telnet response (output) telnet 10.9.9.112 22Trying 10.9.9.112… telnet 10.9.9.143 22 Trying 10.9.9.143… telnet: connect to address 10.9.9.143: Connection refused. For the first IP 10.9.9.112 there is no connection and firewall blocks any connection from source to destination. The output simply says Trying … and stays that way without printing anything else. For the second IP 10.9.9.143 i get Connection refused immediately in the output and the control back to the prompt. I wish to grab both scenarios in when condition and perform different activities for both the cases. I tried to use Ansible’s telnet module but I don’t know how to grab both the different outputs in the registered variable. In my case it prints the same message for both the IPs. Ansible output for first ip: TASK [debug] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [localhost] =\> { “msg”: “HERE:{u’msg’: u’Timeout when waiting for 10.9.9.112’, u’failed’: True, ‘changed’: False, u’elapsed’: 4}” Ansible Output for second ip: TASK [debug] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [localhost] =\> { “msg”: “HERE:{u’msg’: u’Timeout when waiting for 10.9.9.143’, u’failed’: True, ‘changed’: False, u’elapsed’: 3}” The only difference I see is the value for elapsed. Here is my playbook.