Cannot use hosts file with 10.5.1

Hi,
Not sure when this problem creeped in, I think it is since my upgrade to Leopard.
The problem is that whatever I put into my /etc/hosts file is not used. Restards, cache flushes do not help.
If I have in the hosts file
xx.xx.xx.xx anotherHost
nslookup anotherHost fails
What I think is the root cause is that the resolver is hardwired only to DNS and does not read the hosts file. Unfortunatelly I cannot find a way how to change the resolving order in Leopard. lookupd is gone and was replaced by what ?
Reproducable on colleague's macbook.
So short summary :
* how do I make my resolver use hosts file
* how do I control the lookup sequence of my resolver
Regards,
Georgi

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