Jan 03 2008
Joy ! I just get my new Mac Book Pro (2Go RAM / 2,4Ghz Core 2 Duo / 160Go HDD / etc.). So I’m playing a lot with VMware Fusion and multiple host (debian, ubuntu, solaris, windows, etc.) with a great fluidity ! A big improvement for me who was working with an old DELL Laptop with 1Ghz Celeron and 512Mo of Ram…
But, while playing with my new laptop and my multiple virtual instances I needed to flush my DNS Cache. So, here come the tips :
With Mac OS X <= 10.4 :
macvin:~ root# lookupd -flushcache
With Mac OS X > 10.5 :
macvin:~ root# dscacheutil -flushcache
April 27th, 2009 at 1:29 am
For the GUI-inclined (or the lazy) there’s DNS Flusher which is actually just a GUI wrapper for those same commands: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/networking_security/dnsflusher.html