diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3077.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3077.txt
index 8dd9daa8317..f114bb613bb 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3077.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3077.txt
@@ -34,3 +34,5 @@ HDFS-3826. QJM: Some trivial logging / exception text improvements. (todd and at
 HDFS-3839. QJM: hadoop-daemon.sh should be updated to accept "journalnode" (eli)
 
 HDFS-3845. Fixes for edge cases in QJM recovery protocol (todd)
+
+HDFS-3877. QJM: Provide defaults for dfs.journalnode.*address (eli)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml
index 8b055440512..60892e9a793 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml
@@ -1080,4 +1080,21 @@
   </description>
 </property>
 
+<property>
+  <name>dfs.journalnode.rpc-address</name>
+  <value>0.0.0.0:8485</value>
+  <description>
+    The JournalNode RPC server address and port.
+  </description>
+</property>
+
+<property>
+  <name>dfs.journalnode.http-address</name>
+  <value>0.0.0.0:8480</value>
+  <description>
+    The address and port the JournalNode web UI listens on.
+    If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
+  </description>
+</property>
+
 </configuration>