/etc/hosts not routing

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Hi,

I am running Mint 17 KDE.  I have another box configured as a LAMP 
server with each domain having a TLD of dev. I usually add a line for 
each of he vhosts into the /etc/hosts file and it has worked for years.  
Yesterday I moved from Kubuntu to Mint and now that is not working.

I added a line domain.dev 192.168.xx.xx into the /etc/hosts file for 
several dev domains and I cannot reach them in the browser so I tried to 
ping them with ping domain.dev and that failed.  I can ping the LAMP dev 
box with it's IP.

I have used the hosts file in this way for maybe 7 years in both Win and 
Linux without an issue until now.

A search of Google shows others have had the same issue.  I was unable 
to find a solution.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!!
Keith