From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 7:41: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trot.galis.org (ool-18bd0cd9.dyn.optonline.net [24.189.12.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D43937B41B for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:41:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gx@localhost) by trot.galis.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2QFh2R15789; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:43:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:43:02 -0500 From: George Georgalis To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to flush resolver cache Message-ID: <20020326104302.A15740@trot.haven.dom> References: <20020326101208.A3083@mail.clubplus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020326101208.A3083@mail.clubplus.net>; from david@skytrackercanada.com on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:12:08AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What's being cached is the records in DNS servers on the internet. You can add a line like this in your /etc/hosts file which is normally checked before a query is put on your dns servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf 26.2.20.4 maroon maroon.rrcp.org Just don't forget to remove it because you'll forget it's there when the ip changes again! // George On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:12:08AM -0500, David Banning wrote: >A servers IP address has changed recently but my browser >takes me to the old IP address. I cleaned the cache in my browser >but that is not the problem. I understand that I must clean the >resolver cache or wait for the reference to expire. > >If I wanted to clean the resolver cache, where is it? > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message