Flushing DNS in Windows, Mac and Linux

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DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. thus DNS clients will temporarily store the website names that have been visited lately. This cache speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address (the most common example being when a user is browsing the internet).A bad DNS entry can sometimes be cached, requiring a user to either flush the DNS cache immediately or wait for up to twenty-four hours for the entry to be automatically dropped. DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. thus DNS clients will temporarily store the website names that have been visited lately. This cache speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address (the most common example being when a user is browsing the internet).A bad DNS entry can sometimes be cached, requiring a user to either flush the DNS cache immediately or wait for up to twenty-four hours for the entry to be automatically dropped.

Flushing Microsoft Windows Open the command prompt and type the following The above command flushes the DNS completely thus deleting any incorrect entries

To view DNS Cache, type the following command after opening the command prompt Flushing DNS in MacOS X Type the following command at the terminal

Flushing DNS in Ubuntu Linux

Type the following command at the terminal

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