[Gllug] flushing dns cache

Mark Lowes hamster at korenwolf.net
Mon Oct 28 16:11:14 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 15:04, SteveC wrote:
> i hope this is a really stoopid question - i have a debian box that won't 
> deliver mail. exim says example.com is unroutable for mail but my three 
> other debian boxes like it just fine, and they are hanging off the same 
> dns server. it can ping it etc. example.com did have some dns problems 
> last week but is fine now. i tried rebooting [ugh] but no luck.

Sounds like a cache has some old data in it, unless the cache is under
your control there's very little you can do to force it to update.

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