Put in a few things from my notes.

doc/setup-ops.txt

@@ -107,3 +107,9 @@ addresses you set up in the defs file, in /etc/mail/lists . If you want to run
 these mailing lists off your ops node, you can put some people in them now.
 These are just standard sendmail list files - a list of addresses and/or
 archive files, one per line.
+
+##### Step 5 - Other miscellaneous things to set up
+
+hosts file - It's a good idea to put boss' name/IP address in /etc/hosts - ops
+is usually booted before boss (since the latter NFS mounts the former), so this
+will help things that want to look up boss' name before it boots.

doc/setup.txt

@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ delegate the subdomain to you. If you have any hardware (eg. switches or power
 controllers) on a private subnet, add them to /etc/hosts, with the same name
 they've been give in the database.
 
+hosts file - It's a good idea to put ops' name/IP address in /etc/hosts - this
+helps out NFS mounts, which are typically done before the nameserver is started,
+and is generally helpful if things go wrong with the nameserver.
+
 SSL certificates - Our apache config file expects to find SSL certificates in:
 /usr/local/etc/apache/ssl.crt/www.<sitename>.crt and
 /usr/local/etc/apache/ssl.key/www.<sitename>.net.key