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Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Louie)
Mon Apr 18 14:19:29 2005

Reply-To: "Eric Louie" <elouie@yahoo.com>
From: "Eric Louie" <elouie@yahoo.com>
To: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:17:13 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on 
workstations


<snip>

> That's what most Unix/Linux/*BSD boxes do unless they are running a
> local caching name service of some time (BIND, nscd, etc.).  I wasn't
> actually aware that Windows had a DNS cache service.


from a windows command prompt, type
ipconfig /displaydns

it's also flushable using
ipconfig /flushdns 



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