[linuxdaemon]

As someone who administers DNS servers, I'm going to guess this is due to DNS being the first thing that gets blamed when something goes wrong; and it is almost never DNS.

[scaglio]

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!

[doubled112]

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.

[EricE]

Ha!

https://9gag.com/gag/avOj8WE