Lynx expert in the house ?

Hello, Lynx on my Suse Version 7.0, kernel 2.2.16 PC does not seem to find my local HTTP server by any of it's aliases (either in /etc/hosts or from nameserver CNAME entries)... For example, "foo" is suppsoed to be my "localhost" HTTP server if "foo" is an alias for host.somenet.net in /etc/hosts and "foo.somenet.net" is CNAME'd to host.somenet.net (and the domain entry in resolv.conf is for "somenet.net) lynx foo will not look for foo.somenet.net, it causes instead a DNS lookup to my upstream DNS. On a sister machine on my network, running FreeBSD, but with an identical version of lynx and lynx.cfg .. it works properly. Any clues anyone ? Thanks Cliff