diff --git a/files/hosts/qa.fedoraproject.org-hosts b/files/hosts/qa.fedoraproject.org-hosts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4032547db9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/hosts/qa.fedoraproject.org-hosts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
+::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
+10.5.126.23    infrastructure.fedoraproject.org
+10.5.125.63    koji.fedoraproject.org
+10.5.125.36    kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org
+10.5.126.23    infrastructure.fedoraproject.org
+10.5.125.44    pkgs.fedoraproject.org  pkgs
+#
+# This is proxy01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
+#
+10.5.126.52    mirrors.fedoraproject.org
+10.5.126.52    admin.fedoraproject.org
diff --git a/playbooks/groups/kernel-qa.yml b/playbooks/groups/kernel-qa.yml
index b743b450c1..4723a43823 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/kernel-qa.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/kernel-qa.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
   tasks:
   # this is how you include other task lists
+  - include: $tasks/hosts.yml
   - include: $tasks/base.yml
   - include: $tasks/fas_client.yml
 
diff --git a/tasks/base.yml b/tasks/base.yml
index 5a4ab334e9..b8bcfe8878 100644
--- a/tasks/base.yml
+++ b/tasks/base.yml
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
 
 - name: add infrastructure repo
   action: copy src=$files/common/infrastructure.repo dest=/etc/yum.repos.d/infrastructure.repo
+
+
+# setup /etc/hosts if we can figure it all out
+
   
 - name: default packages to install
   action: yum state=installed name=$item