alias in /etc/hosts not respected

[paladin-zero]

My work uses dynamically assigned ip addresses, so I use my wireless routers dynamically assigned addresses at home as well. At home, I wanted to be able to use ssh without having to figure out what each computer's dynamic ip is, so I assigned an alias in /etc/hosts like so:

127.0.0.1 leibniz.ether leibniz localhost
192.168.2.100 leibniz.ether leibniz
192.168.2.101 quicksilver.ether quicksilver

which seems to work just the way I wanted it to on my desktop computer. I did the same on my laptop, but it doesnt work, it seems that the laptop rejects its second alias, and only keeps the dynamic address. Ive confirmed this with " $ ip addr"

Could anyone offer a suggestion: why would the second alias be rejected? Is there a better way to do this?

[christsong84]

poke around but I'm sure there's a setting in dhcpcd for not setting the hostname to the dynamic one
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