Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

Flushing local DNS settings

It's good having The Wizard for a friend.  I updated a client's DNS settings at GoDaddy two days ago and was preparing to give them a first look at their Community Server site.  I could hit the site on my laptop, on my wife's PC, but not on a machine in my office that I really needed to view the site with.  So it had to be a lock on the site's old IP address on the machine.  No matter what I cleared in FF and IE I kept pulling up the old site.

Time to call The Wizard, who gave me the goods, as he always does.  To flush the local DNS settings at the command prompt type

ipconfig /flushdns

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Posted on 3/22/2007 8:24:52 AM by Dave Burke
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3/22/2007 9:41:34 AM Permalink

You need to do both 'ioconfig /flushdns' and restart IE. IE holds on to the resolved address for a while ...

Or you could use the tried and true solution..., reboot and curse Bill Gates.

Anonymous Coward is still a Coward - Your SQL Injection code goes here :-) |

3/22/2007 9:57:15 AM Permalink

Ha! Smile

Oh no, not Mr. Bill!

daveburke |

3/22/2007 10:03:58 AM Permalink

Actually, I did reboot and still had trouble.  Thanks for the ioconfig tip though!

Hey, Wiz!

daveburke |

3/22/2007 10:19:08 PM Permalink

Or you can do what I do and disable the DNS Client Service (contrary to popular belief this does not disable a machine's ability to make DNS requests)...nothing will be cached locally then. DNS queries are (for the most part) cheap.

jayson knight |

3/23/2007 4:06:07 AM Permalink

Hey, Jayson.  Thanks for the info on DNS Client Service.  Man, I've never heard of a DNS Client Service, but I just scanned my Services list and there it was!  Interesting.

daveburke |


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