Google Chrome Ignoring Hosts File

Question

Google Chrome is ignoring the settings in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts file. Both IE11 and Firefox are installed on the same machine and work as expec

Answer 1

This has been identified as a "bug" in Chrome, but it appears to be absolutely intentional behavior. Google Chrome does not honor /etc/hosts when connected to the internal. It always does a DNS lookup to determine IP addresses.

While my references below mostly relate to my expereinces with this on Linux, it is not confined to Linux.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/net-dev/iKXqyc40tW0

https://superuser.com/a/887199/75128

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117655