diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 19dd97d..73bc7b3 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,46 +1,55 @@
 # container-based environment blockers:
 # - cluster-glue-dev
 #   https://github.com/travis-ci/apt-package-whitelist/issues/2936
 # - libsystemd-daemon-dev (libsystemd-dev)
 #   https://github.com/travis-ci/apt-package-whitelist/issues/2449
 # - no equivalent of "libcrmcluster4-dev" (trusty) for precise,
 #   but can be worked around with something like (or local dir + CPPFLAGS):
 #   GHREPO=ClusterLabs/pacemaker INCLFILE=crm/services.h curl --create-dirs \
 #     -o "/usr/include/pacemaker/${INCLFILE}" \
 #     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/${GHREPO}/master/include/${INCLFILE}"
 sudo: required
 dist: trusty
 
 language: c
 compiler: gcc
 
 env:
         - GLUE=1
         - GLUE=0
 
 before_install:
+        # following command is so as to counterweight unfortunate change
+        # https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-cookbooks/commit/6c575d5d55c08e3a0c046dc7de2aa5d5b38e0b63
+        # that made proper hostnames be mapped from 127.0.1.1 address
+        # rather than 127.0.0.1 (properly assigned to loopback interface),
+        # hence (likely) caused "hostname -i" return that other address
+        # that is normally not assigned to loopback (and hence booth
+        # cannot identify "itself" within configured sites, leading to
+        # spurious test suite failure) so do that manually as a workaround
+        - sudo ip addr add 127.0.1.1/8 scope host dev lo
         - sudo apt-get update -qq
         - sudo apt-get install -qq -y libglib2.0-dev libcrmcluster4-dev
         - test "${GLUE}" = 0
           || sudo apt-get install -qq -y cluster-glue-dev
         - test "${GLUE}" != 0
           || sudo apt-get install -qq -y libqb-dev libsystemd-daemon-dev
 
 before_script:
         - ./autogen.sh
           && ./configure --with-glue=$(test "${GLUE}" = 0 && echo no || echo yes)
         - ulimit -S -c unlimited  # ensure cores are generated (~after_failure)
 
 script: VERBOSE=1 make check
 
 after_failure:
         - sudo apt-get install -qq gdb libc6-dbg
         # examine core files
         - find -name 'core*' -print0
           | xargs -0I@ -- sh -xc
             'file "@";
              gdb -se $(file "@" | sed -n "s|.* core file .* from \x27\([^\x27 ]*\).*|\1|p")
                  -c "@" -batch -ex "t a a bt f" -ex "set pagination 0"'
 
 notifications:
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