Solaris host files

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Posted on July 02, 2015

I am not sure why but Solaris has three locations for host file entries. If you come across any DNS Resolution errors. I would recommend checking the below files.
/etc/hosts
/etc/inet/hosts
/etc/inet/ipnodes

Additional information can be found at
https://blogs.oracle.com/superpat/entry/solaris_10_etc_hosts_gotcha