Flushing DNS?

[coldReactive]

Just wanted to know if ReactOS will be able to flush the DNS similar to windows. Because I don't want to end up doing what I have to do for linux (install netools or whatever then figure out what the command is to flush.)

ipconfig /flushdns will be so easy for us.

[hto]

Sooner or later it should be implemented. As for linux, there is no any DNS cache (unless a special daemon is installed), so nothing to flush.

EDIT: Well, linux hasn't a DNS cache, but firefox has. It seems that clearing offline storage and restarting firefox also clears its DNS cache. I don't know is there any other method. Any nettools or whatever else will not help, it is purely a firefox internal thing.

[coldReactive]

Sooner or later it should be implemented. As for linux, there is no any DNS cache (unless a special daemon is installed), so nothing to flush.

EDIT: Well, linux hasn't a DNS cache, but firefox has. It seems that clearing offline storage and restarting firefox also clears its DNS cache. I don't know is there any other method. Any nettools or whatever else will not help, it is purely a firefox internal thing.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1127169

I said pidgin had DNS cache because after using the flush/restart command, pidgin started connecting again.

[hto]

I said pidgin had DNS cache […]

Unlikely. I just tried to run pidgin, connected to irc.freenode.net and disconnected from it a few times. It resolves the domain name each time when connects. No evidence that it remembers ip addresses.

[…] because after using the flush/restart command, pidgin started connecting again.

If you mean /etc/init.d/networking restart, it breaks all connections; of course pidgin will have to reconnect after it.

[coldReactive]

If you mean /etc/init.d/networking restart, it breaks all connections; of course pidgin will have to reconnect after it.

I meant that MSN was acting up because of DNS Issues. Flushing the DNS in the way mentioned in that topic caused it to start connecting to MSN again.