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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

Description of problem:
Getent hosts will not display output if hostname starts with numeric.
It has no problem resolving if hostname starts with alpha characters.




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.3.2-95.27

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure hosts entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf to first look 
in /etc/hosts.
2.Add two entries to the /etc/hosts file:
192.168.2.1    dhcp2-1
192.168.2.2    2dhcp2
3.Issue the commands:
getent hosts dhcp2-1
getent hosts 2dhcp2

    

Actual Results:  getent hosts dhcp2-1
192.168.2.1     dhcp2-1

getent hosts 2dhcp2
<NOTHING>

Expected Results:  getent hosts dhcp2-1
192.168.2.1     dhcp2-1

getent hosts 2dhcp2
192.168.2.2    2dhcp2



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