Comment # 4 on bug 1217355 from Thorsten Kukuk

(In reply to André Werlang from comment #3)
> $ getent hosts
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain

What do you want to tell us with this? That listening the file line by line
works?
This does say nothing about if the syntax is correct or if the name is
resolveable. And as I did show, 127.0.0.1 is not correct solveable.
And if you look at the glibc source code, you will see that for resolving a
host, the code does not go through every line, but stops at the first matching
line. So your second line is not reached.