How do I reference a WellKnownService on Windows 7 with customized Hosts file

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Hello all
I have currently come across a strange situation with one of my customers upgrading there machines from Windows XP to Windows 7. On the Windows 7 hosts file a record exist for local host pointing to a non standard IP (NOT 127.0.0.1). From some research I see that Windows 7 uses a DNS service to issue the local host IP, so from a few test I can see a conflict arises. I create a TcpChannel as follows on the server.

BinaryClientFormatterSinkProvider clientProvider = null;
                BinaryServerFormatterSinkProvider serverProvider = new BinaryServerFormatterSinkProvider();
                serverProvider.TypeFilterLevel = System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.TypeFilterLevel.Full;

                IDictionary props = new Hashtable();
                props["port"] = 1234;
                props["typeFilterLevel"] = TypeFilterLevel.Full;
                
                TcpChannel chan = new TcpChannel(props, clientProvider, serverProvider);
                ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(chan, false);

If I do a netstat -a

I see the service is running at 0.0.0.0:1234

My problem comes now trying to access the address of the service.
My client code below

string URL = "tcp://" + "localhost" + ":" + "1234" + "/" + "Link";
            
            Lib = (Server.LinkLibrary)Activator.GetObject(typeof(Server.LinkLibrary),
                      URL);

My problem now is localhost is resolved from the Windows Hosts file. This means that the server LocalHost and the Reference to localHost are different.

My question is how do I resolve this without hard coding the localhost in the code to
127.0.0.1 and not changing the Windows Hosts file from the non-Standard localhost?

Thanks