Quote:
/etc/nsswitch.conf : hosts: files dns mdns4
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Solved!

I changed this to:
/etc/nsswitch.conf :
hosts: files mdns4 dns
This is normally not the way to do: mdns should be called after dns when dns has failed. This is in part to avoid unnecessary network traffic.
Unfortunately here, dns never fails. If I issue "ping qqsdjkfghqs", it will still resolve to 82.101.8.41!
So I had to put mdns before dns...
I suspect this is because of Club-Internet's (my ISP) "browsing assistant": whenever you type an address that does not exist in a browser, their page appears saying that the address given does not exist and proposing approaching alternatives. The idea is not bad, really. But I wouldn't be surprised if the IP of the machine hosting this page was 82.101.8.41, and in my case it is a pain.
Yves.
BTW: the "kill -9" issue is a bug known to the Debian maintainer of mDNSResponder, so no need to worry about that.