[windows2000] Re: /flushdns - Nope

You may also want to check you local hosts file to make sure there is nothing
pointing to the old DNS info.  The DNS relsolver cache will always have entries,
local host and DNS server...and some revese entires and any entires in your
hosts file.

Dean

Joe Shonk wrote:

> The /flushdns should work... You can try stopping and restarting the dns =
> client service.   Otherwise, your DNS server isn't updating...  Did you =
> reload the zone and update server after making your change?
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray at home [mailto:listray@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:10 PM
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [windows2000] /flushdns - Nope
>
> Hi list,
>
> Can anyone explain to me what the point of "ipconfig /flushdns" is?  I
> mean, any time I run that, my DNS cache is NOT flushed.  It gets my
> goat.  Let's see here...
>
> /flushdns    Purges the DNS Resolver cache.
> /displaydns  Display the contents of the DNS Resolver Cache.
>
> So, you'd think that if I did a /flushdns and then did a /displaydns,
> the displaydns'd be empty.  No, it's not.  And although I made changes
> in my DNS server for one particular host, my computer still resolves the
> name to the old IP, and I still see it when I do a /displaydns.  It's
> not like I'm using WINS or anything, and this host is not a machine that
> the browser service would have picked up or anything.  It's just a name
> that I use to access one of my intranets.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray at home
>
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