# Specific variable "disappears" in 1.5.4 ?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/specific-variable-disappears-in-1-5-4/14942>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 4, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/specific-variable-disappears-in-1-5-4/14942 "2014-04-04T17:01:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rick](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rick)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/specific-variable-disappears-in-1-5-4/14942/1 "2014-04-04T17:01:46Z")

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In my main playbooks I define a global variable named “dns\_type”, used in multiple roles. It’s simply defined like this:

vars:  
dns\_type: “CNAME”

This worked fine up to 1.5.3.

In 1.5.4, this variable turns up empty when I try to use it in a role. If I rename it to “dnstype” or “dns\_foo”, it works fine. Seems like an oddly specific issue, and I haven’t found anything in Ansible that uses this particular name.

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/specific-variable-disappears-in-1-5-4/14942/2 "2014-04-06T14:02:23Z")

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I’m not quite able to reproduce that on 1.5.4, could you share a small playbook/role that reproduces the issue for you?