I looked at the module's source. It can't be configured to do so.
By the way, it's not using the normal name resolution system since it wants to know if the host resolves to another host name (i.e. when it's a CNAME) so it can check that host name against the host black and white lists too.
If you wanted to add this functionality, I suggest wrapping LWPx::ParanoidAgent::_resolve
with something that checks /etc/hosts
directly (when !$depth
) before falling back to the original _resolve
. Providing a Net::DNS::Resolver look-alike would be significantly more work.