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Why do WCF endpoints ignore the hosts file?

I have endpoints defined in a configuration file with a "fake" domain name. The idea is that this will simplify the deployment, because instead of changing the configuration files, we simply set the ip address of the “fake” domain name in the host files of the environment. So for example, in my local dev block, I will have an entry in the hosts file

127.0.0.1       fake.domain

and in a user adoption environment I could

192.45.34.31    fake.domain

but in my configuration file I would just have an endpoint

<endpoint address="http://fake.domain/someServiceBase/SomeService.svc" ... />

However, WCF seems to completely ignore the hosts file. I can copy the past address to the browser and it will work correctly, but the WCF client (which is located in the local dev block) will give a "host not found" error.

Why is WCF ignoring the hosts file?

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