On Mar 20, 2022, at 04:17, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

When has the /etc/hosts file ever given anything an IP address?

I don’t know the exact details of this particular problem, but if you install the “dnsmasq” package, it includes dns and dhcp service, and by default it parses /etc/hosts and uses it for DNS names.

https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

Jonathan Billings