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 for the install.  As mentioned above, install Ansible on the head node and check out this repository.
 
 The playbooks assume that a bridge called *mgmtbr* on the head node is connected to the management
-network.  Also there must be a DHCP server on the management network to hand out IP addresses
-to VMs; if you need to set up `dnsmasq` to do this, take a look at [this example](files/etc/dnsmasq.d/cord).
+network.  Also there must be a DHCP server on the management network that can hand out IP addresses
+to VMs, and can resolve VM names to IP addresses; if you need to set up `dnsmasq` to do this, 
+take a look at [this example](files/etc/dnsmasq.d/cord).
 Then follow these steps:
 
 * Edit *cord-hosts* with the DNS names of your compute nodes, and update the *ansible_ssh_user* variable appropriately.