Lisa wrote: >> >> > Needless to say, you need to wait for their zone to expire in >> your DNS cache before you will be able to reach it. >> > I read this and remembered there's a flushdns command in Windoze to force an > immediate refresh. So I looked for a Linux equivalent, which is supposedly: > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart Which works great if you're running nscd, but not everyone is. Stephen's workaround (adding the entry to /etc/hosts) works around the problem neatly, no matter your resolver situation.