diff --git a/README-dnsforwardzone.md b/README-dnsforwardzone.md
index 32de7bfec501d881f9aeeb207bc65f2477db89bc..249860817a7da3ff43ea88cddb291ff8771ee911 100644
--- a/README-dnsforwardzone.md
+++ b/README-dnsforwardzone.md
@@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ Example playbook to ensure presence of a forwardzone to ipa DNS:
   become: true
 
   tasks:
-  - name: ensure presence of forwardzone for DNS requests for example.com to 8.8.8.8
+  - name: ensure presence of forwardzone with a single forwarder DNS server
     ipadnsforwardzone:
       ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
       state: present
       name: example.com
       forwarders:
-        - 8.8.8.8
+        - ip_address: 8.8.8.8
       forwardpolicy: first
       skip_overlap_check: true
 
@@ -63,14 +63,14 @@ Example playbook to ensure presence of a forwardzone to ipa DNS:
       name: example.com
       state: disabled
 
-  - name: ensure presence of multiple upstream DNS servers for example.com
+  - name: ensure presence of forwardzone with multiple forwarder DNS server
     ipadnsforwardzone:
       ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
       state: present
       name: example.com
       forwarders:
-        - 8.8.8.8
-        - 4.4.4.4
+        - ip_address: 8.8.8.8
+        - ip_address: 4.4.4.4
 
   - name: ensure presence of another forwarder to any existing ones for example.com
     ipadnsforwardzone:
@@ -78,10 +78,19 @@ Example playbook to ensure presence of a forwardzone to ipa DNS:
       state: present
       name: example.com
       forwarders:
-        - 1.1.1.1
+        - ip_address: 1.1.1.1
       action: member
 
-  - name: ensure the forwarder for example.com does not exists (delete it if needed)
+  - name: ensure presence of forwardzone with single forwarder DNS server on non-stardard port
+    ipadnsforwardzone:
+      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
+      state: present
+      name: example.com
+      forwarders:
+        - ip_address: 4.4.4.4
+          port: 8053
+
+  - name: ensure the forward zone is absent
     ipadnsforwardzone:
       ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
       name: example.com
diff --git a/plugins/modules/ipadnsforwardzone.py b/plugins/modules/ipadnsforwardzone.py
index 1ffba38e17e52a9babfc83679423c97a3480d1a5..69ee040fffef39cc3f694056cd8225406d5ff564 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/ipadnsforwardzone.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/ipadnsforwardzone.py
@@ -89,8 +89,19 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
     state: present
     name: example.com
     forwarders:
-    - 8.8.8.8
-    - 4.4.4.4
+    - ip_address: 8.8.8.8
+    - ip_address: 4.4.4.4
+    forwardpolicy: first
+    skip_overlap_check: true
+
+# Ensure dns zone is present, with forwarder on non-default port
+- ipadnsforwardzone:
+    ipaadmin_password: MyPassword123
+    state: present
+    name: example.com
+    forwarders:
+    - ip_address: 8.8.8.8
+      port: 8053
     forwardpolicy: first
     skip_overlap_check: true