Flushing DNS Cache on Ubuntu 12.04

Honestly, I often facing this problem especially when managing and configuring my server.

In this tutorial, make sure nscd installed on your machine first. If it doesn't, the command will not working. In otherword, you can't flushing your DNS through this way.

sudo apt-get install nscd

#Status
sudo /etc/init.d/nscd status

#Starting

sudo /etc/init.d/nscd start

#Stopping

sudo /etc/init.d/nscd stop

#Clearing

sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart

#Flushing DNS

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

#Cleaning DNS and start

sudo /etc/init.d/dns-clean start



This is the screen shot: