Comment 9 for bug 1326536

Thanks Nathan to share you workaround as well, but IMHO it is "just as good" as the --no-hosts flag. In that I mean while it prevent the reply of 127.0.1.1 for the Host it also stops any other entry in Hosts to be used (which users might want or even already rely on).

Darragh, Jason and Serge tried to find a solution which keeps the wanted behaviour (all but Host from /etc/hosts) but fixes the issue (Host itself resolved to 127.0.1.1) to make something suitable for libvirt upstream submission.

Despite the time passing since then, I didn't see this or a similar approach to be realized upstream yet.