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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.