client fails to resolve master hostname when not using fully qualified domain name

After upgrade I am unable to create or delete a table via java using either the
conn.tableOperations().delete(tableName);

and/or

conn.tableOperations().create(tableName);

The error presents itself by hanging the code when it executes this line in the code.

Important:

Table scans via java are working fine.
Table mutations via java also work fine.

The same user account can create and deleted the table via accumulo shell.

The cause of the code hanging cannot be determined further since there is nothing in the Eclipse logs or Server logs that provide any more information.

I can verify that the connection to Zookeeper completes successfully... however there is no indication after that on the Server side that a call is being made to Accumulo to create/delete the table.