diff --git a/tasks/hosts.yml b/tasks/hosts.yml
index a1686b4904..f12d60511b 100644
--- a/tasks/hosts.yml
+++ b/tasks/hosts.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   - $files/hosts/${ansible_fqdn}-hosts
   - $files/hosts/${ansible_hostname}-hosts
   - $files/hosts/${ansible_domain}-hosts
-    skip: true
+# once upstream lets us skip on no match
+#  skip: true
   tags:
   - config