My x64 windows 2003 box is not resolving names in the hosts file in system32\drivers\etc. I have been testing with nslookup with no luck.
There was not a syswow64\drivers\etc\hosts so I created one and entered the same hosts also with no luck. Should I reboot to get this one to work?
I've done the ipconfig /flushdns and /registerdns a few times with no luck.
forgive me if the response is to basic. It is quite unusual that this is not working and it appears you have taken all of the right steps. Something as simple as the hosts file should just work when entries are being added to this file.
Take a look at Microsoft KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034 are there any other uncommented out lines in the hosts file aside from the ip and host to resolve?