Hosts file help

Guys This is my first apple experience hence very basic knowledge.
I have a PowerPC G3 with MAC OSX 10.1.5
I need to resolve host name to IP
I located hosts file under /etc and tried to add the host name and ip address but I cannot save or override the hosts file.
I cannot change the file priviales as they are grayed out.
I currently logged in as admin user.
Please all the help will be appreciated.
Is there any other way?
I also followed the discussion on
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88158
but this does not work... also after rebooting
thanks
Mustafa
www.hostukdomain.com
G3 Mac OS X (10.1.x)

I tried to follow the discuss at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2017650&#2017650
this has added the entry to the hosts file but when i try to ping or lookup on the host name it still does not pickup from hosts file..
I checked around and looks like there needs to be further configuration on the lookupd...
if someone can show me light..
mustafa
http://www.hostukdomain.com

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