in reply to /etc/hosts is not evaluated after modification on Linux

Unix systems tend to use NSS nowadays. If your /etc/nsswitch.conf contains a line like 

hosts:    dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files
then /etc/hosts isn't normally consulted at all. The move is towards more stringent lookups & authority, I suppose.

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