Note that target hostnames must be resolvable.

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@@ -148,11 +148,12 @@ Note the colon after every task name in the ``tasks`` section.
 
 The ``install`` task needs to precede all other tasks.
 
-You need to be able to SSH in to the listed targets without
-passphrases, and the remote user needs to have passphraseless `sudo`
-access. Note that the ssh keys at the end of the ``targets``
-entries are the public ssh keys for the hosts.
-On Ubuntu, these are located at /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
+The listed targets need resolvable hostnames. If you do not have a DNS server
+running, you can add entries to ``/etc/hosts``. You also need to be able to SSH
+in to the listed targets without passphrases, and the remote user needs to have
+passphraseless `sudo` access. Note that the ssh keys at the end of the
+``targets`` entries are the public ssh keys for the hosts.  On Ubuntu, these
+are located at /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
 
 If you'd save the above file as ``example.yaml``, you could run
 teuthology on it by saying::