SBDavid
Oct 18th, 2010
Oct 18th, 2010
Flushing DNS Cache on your system
Flushing DNS Cache on your system.
When your computer visits a website for the first time, it stores the website’s DNS information in a local cache.
The instructions unique to particular operating systems are below.
From the command line on a windows operating system type:
ipconfig /flushdns
From a Linux operating system.
/etc/init.d/nscd restart
Nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service requests
From MAC on the terminal window
dscacheutil -flushcache
Directory Service (DNS) cache - Gather information, statistics, initiate queries, flush the cache. dscacheutil replaces most of the functionality of thelookupd tool provided prior to OS X Leopard.
