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OL5U8 - flush dns cache query

834586Nov 11 2012 — edited Nov 12 2012
Hi All,

I'm running OL5U8 on kernel 2.6.32-300.32.2.el5uek. The resolv.conf file points to two Windows 2008 DNS servers. Is there a way to flush the dns cache on OL5U8, something like ipconfig /flushdns in Windows?

What happen was I added a second nic card on a OL5U8 virtual machine and gave it a static ip address ending in .82. Only to find out there was a reverse pointer in the Windows DNS server with that address. So I changed it to .44 but every time I ping the hostname, its resolving to .82 instead of .44.

I've already added A record and reverse pointer for the hostname to the .44 address. The .82 reverse pointer is still there until I can find out from the team here why its there.

But is there a way to flush the dns cache from my other OL5U8 servers so they stop returning .82 when I ping the server? Dnsmasq and nscd are not being used with both services turned off.

I'll rather not restart the network service if I can avoid it.

Thanks.
This post has been answered by Dude! on Nov 12 2012
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