How To Clear / Flush Local DNS Cache in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Type ipconfig /flushdns on cmd prompt.

E:\>ipconfig /flushdns



Windows 2000 IP Configuration

Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.
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Leroy
April 28, 2010: 4:03 am

hoi

Damith
October 5, 2007: 2:21 pm

you have to check whether the DNS Server and DNS Client services are running on your PC before flushdns

Angsuman Chakraborty
September 19, 2007: 12:08 am

Login as administrator before running the command.

Restart obviously works :)


Joey
September 18, 2007: 4:55 pm

I have the same problem as Susan exactly. Was it ever resolved?

Angsuman Chakraborty
November 14, 2006: 2:01 pm

Are you logged in as administrator?

Susan Lowry
November 14, 2006: 7:00 am

I tried it (except that XP Run brings up Documents and Settings etc. after C: ) and got err msg: Could not flush DNS Resolver cache. Function failed to complete. - or something like that. What should I try? I was told that I could not use the Repair feature for my LAN until I flushed the DNS cache. I don’t need to do that now but thought I’d try it anyway. Appreciate the help.

nat
May 30, 2006: 12:31 pm

In server side, we can restart the DNS service to flush the DNS

Angsuman Chakraborty
March 23, 2006: 7:16 am

I use lightgreen

anjan bacchu
March 23, 2006: 1:30 am

hi there,

nice console color. I use RGB(128,255,128) — how about yours ?

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