Articles tagged with dns server

1. Clear Windows DNS Server Cache From the CLI

   Posted on February 22, 2011 in System Administration

   Clearing the Windows DNS Server cache from the command line is an easy task.

   C:\> dnscmd . /clearcache
   

   The . indicates the local DNS server. You can use this command to clear the cache of remote DNS servers by replacing the . with the hostname or IP address of the remote server.

2. OS X Caching Only Name Server

   Posted on May 31, 2007 in System Administration

   By default, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) comes with BIND 9 pre-installed and pre-configured to operate in caching-only mode. Unfortunately, the operating system is not configured to start the server at boot time, or even use the server if it was running. In this series of articles, we'll create …