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Name: bonga
Date: February 12, 2009 at 02:52:59 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Subcategory: Servers
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what is flush dns used for



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Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: February 12, 2009 at 05:08:33 Pacific
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Did you Google?

http://www.trap17.com/index.php/dns...

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Name: acetace
Date: February 12, 2009 at 07:26:50 Pacific
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Flushes the DNS resolution mapping cached locally in the machine. DNS caches works like how your browser caches internet contents. Flushing the DNS, by analogy is the equivalent to deleting your browser's cached content.


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