diff --git a/roles/hosts/files/base b/roles/hosts/files/base
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..849c10d456
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/hosts/files/base
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
+::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
diff --git a/roles/hosts/tasks/main.yml b/roles/hosts/tasks/main.yml
index 2d2843f750..36d382f452 100644
--- a/roles/hosts/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/hosts/tasks/main.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     - "{{ host_group }}-hosts"
     - "{{ ansible_domain }}-hosts"
     - "{{ datacenter }}-hosts"
+    - "base"
     skip: true
   tags:
   - config