-# add in a test copr repo
-wget http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/tykeal/odl-updates/repo/epel-7/tykeal-odl-updates-epel-7.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/tykeal-odl-updates-epel-7.repo
-
-yum clean all
-
-# Install xpath
-yum install -y perl-XML-XPath
-
-yum update -y python-{six,pip}
+# It looks like the devstack gate is stomping on our dnsmasq setup which
+# therefore kills our ability to do proper lookups of some resources.
+# Let's capture the 3 nexus IPs into /etc/hosts
+cat <<EOHOSTS >> /etc/hosts
+# the internal address for nexus
+$(dig +short nexus.opendaylight.org) nexus.opendaylight.org
+# all the nexus proxies
+$(dig +short nexus01.dfw.opendaylight.org) nexus01.dfw.opendaylight.org
+$(dig +short nexus02.dfw.opendaylight.org) nexus02.dfw.opendaylight.org
+$(dig +short nexus03.ord.opendaylight.org) nexus03.ord.opendaylight.org
+EOHOSTS