Flush Your DNS Cache Easily | Hackintosh Mumbai

DNS Cache is database which manipulated by the Operating Systems like Windows, Linux and macOS and most of the time its called ac DNS resolver cache. This database is store information about recent visited websites, Its like memory that stores cache which helps to load websites faster. This is also helps to access heavily loaded website if you are using regularly like E-Commerce Amazon for instance. In contrast, sometime spam based websites are open by accidentally and its happens with everyone and those spam based website cache we need to remove where Flushing DNS comes into picture.In this article we will show you how to Flush Your DNS Cache from the systems.

Flush DNS Cache on Mac

You can flush your local DNS cache in macOS from your Terminal:

Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
Type the following command and press Enter

macOS High Sierra and later

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder;sudo killall mDNSResponderHelper;sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

Mac OS X 11 El Capitan and macOS Sierra

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Older versions

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Versions 10.10.4+

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache;sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Versions 10.10.1, 10.10.2, 10.10.3

sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches

Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks

dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

dscacheutil -flushcache

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

lookupd -flushcache

Easily Flush Cache on Linux

You can flush your local DNS cache in Linux from your Terminal / Shell:

Go to Applications -> System Tools-> Terminal
Type the following command and press Enter

Open Terminal and type following

sudo service nscd restart 
sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd stop 
sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd start

Easily Flush Cache Windows

You can flush your local DNS cache in Linux from your command prompt

Press WIN+R -> Type-> CMD
Type the following command and press Enter

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Note:-Flushing DNS regularly basis is always preferable because it prevents from attack from spammers and attackers.