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by scaglio 759 days ago
That's the point, but often in many network issues, the name resolution is the root cause of the problem. Not necessarily the DNS itself. Sometimes the /etc/hosts is more than enough to cause headaches!
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I've certainly added a hostname to an /etc/hosts file for testing and forgotten.

Nothing makes sense, where is this address coming from? Oh. It was me. I put it there.