Flushing DNS Cache

Posted by Sheldon Finlay on February 04, 2009

If you work with web sites, DNS, etc. and have to make regular DNS changes, it can often take a while for DNS changes to propagate. So you can either wait the 12 – 24 that it takes for your computer to refresh, or you can try and force a refresh by clearing your local DNS cache. It doesn’t always work, mind you.

If you are using Mac OS X, you can try:

dscacheutil -flushcache

Or if you use Windows you can try:

winipcfg /flushdns

You may need to restart your browser or which ever application you are trying to access the site with.

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