in reply to Strawberry Perl: Windows hosts file not working?

Hello sectokia,

it seems.. no

> Perl does not "use the /etc/hosts file". It's using the same network stack as the rest of the machine. It is the network layer that is using /etc/hosts.

PS I confirm that it should work: test it this way 

# HOSTS
# 127.0.0.1 foo.example.com

perl -MSocket -E"say inet_ntoa(inet_aton($ARGV[0]))" foo.example.com

127.0.0.1

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