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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: silly DNS question? http://www.adox.de/


Damian Gerow wrote:
> 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.
>   

In any case, even if you are running nscd and flush it, the dns entry
could actually be cached further upstream as well (your router, ISP etc.)

--Raj.
> Stephen's workaround (adding the entry to /etc/hosts) works around the
> problem neatly, no matter your resolver situation.
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