HOW DO I: Flush My DNS

[Zenax]

I have no reason to do this at the moment however it would be useful for me to know in the future if I so require to flush my DNS


Regards,
Zenxa

 

[lambada]

Start > Run
cmd
IN the window that opens:
ipconfig /flushdns

I'm presuming your on Windows, if not just ask.

 

[Zenax]

And what exactly does this do? I have seen you guys reccommend it when someone has a problem. Does it change your I.P or cleans all the junk out that you visited??

 

[lambada]

When you visit a site like google.com it looks in your DNS settings to see which DNS server(s) [Often your ISP's] to query they then send back an IP address which your computer then uses to get the webpage.
When you get the IP sometimes it will store a copy in your DNS record, or that record can become corrupted (thats what happens when you get a browser hijacker - it adds an entry in your local DNS saying for google.com send to somebadsite.com)

As your local DNS takes priority over all other possible returns it will always look there until the record is removed. Usually this should happen after x amount of views, but sometimes for whatever reason it doesn't. This removes the records thus letting your computer query the DNS Servers to get the new IP address.

It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the general gist of it.

 

[Zenax]

So basically it flushes out any of the local records stored on my computer, and then creates new ones!

Thanks lambada!

Regards,
Zenax

 

[lambada]

Yup, that's it. Now why couldn't I put it as nicely as that?

Any more question just ask

 

[DarkDragonLord]

Nice one!

But, that works for Shared internet? Like in Offices, we got a pc-internet server. But i have no access to it. So if i do this command to flush my ip, will still works?
thanks

 

[Micro]

No, if another server is doing the routing, then that machine needs to have that command run on it...

 

[guitarmas5]

start>run>cmd>ipconfig/flushdns
:happysad:

 

[Slothie]

You could start by changing your dns to use OpenDNS servers