name already exists in /etc/hosts but does not

[Culex]

not giving name magicjack to the dhcp lease of 192.168.1.202 because the name exists in /etc/hosts with address 192.168.1.200
not giving name magicjack.lan to the dhcp lease of 192.168.1.202 because the name exists in /etc/hosts with address 192.168.1.200

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.
192.168.1.1 Gargoyle
192.168.1.100 Culex-PC
192.168.1.120 Ziander-PC
192.168.1.105 Wii
192.168.1.101 Matts-Laptop
192.168.1.103 Matts-Kindle
192.168.1.202 MagicJack
192.168.1.140 Dad-PC
192.168.1.121 Mosins-iPhone
192.168.1.150 GARAGE-PC

what the heck? It used to exist, but I removed it from /etc/hosts and have rebooted long since. Its not even listed in /etc/ethers.

root@Gargoyle:/etc# ping magicjack
PING magicjack (192.168.1.202): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.202: seq=0 ttl=255 time=8.322 ms

root@Gargoyle:/etc# ping magicjack.lan
PING magicjack.lan (192.168.1.200): 56 data bytes

Boggle.

[ispyisail]

Are you sure another machine hasn't picked up "magicjack"?

[Culex]

Nothing sits on 192.168.1.200. Even if that were the case which it isn't that would mean the message would be in error. I havent changed anything and it looks like the messages have disappeared.

[ispyisail]

My only suggestion is to reset the router to the default and reconfigure (don't use a backup to recover the config)

I you can repeat the error after that I would suggest Eric may look more closely at this fault.