Aye I did.
It seems all a bit bizarre.
I have a feeling that the home editions have been screwed around with to the point of taking the piss.
I have nothing in the hosts file in /etc the DNS server is down and only have an entry in that other hosts file and it resloves pprune, if I swap it to to /etc it can't resolve pprune.
O aye I am linking into the internet using a 3g network so that abortion of a network killer wins isn't in the frame.