> I am happy to document this in wiki some place if it might help others.

We could add this to the document I referred to.

>
> A) Is there any other 'best practices' to keep DNS / HOST LOOKUPs straight?

I'd ask a sysadmin, but I think you just need to keep things
"consistant" meaning always in the same order.

>    A2)  would it be safer if I used the IP addresses?  Or reverse DNS
> required even then?

Might not work in all cases.

>
> B) I do miss the short hand aliases in /etc/hosts.  Is there a way to have
> these aliases, without interfering with Hbase / zookeeper?

You should still be able to keep them in there, they just need to be
second to the FQDN.

J-D

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