How to Flush DNS Cache (Windows, Mac, Chrome)

Clearing your DNS cache is a simple process that varies depending on your OS and browser. Learn how to flush DNS cache on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome with this detailed tutorial. 🖥

Domain Name Server (DNS) cache flushing might appear to be a complex process, but in reality it requires little to no technical experience. Sometimes, issues regarding image and CSS loading are due to corruptions in your DNS cache.

The DNS is an index that matches all domain names on the internet with their respective IP address, much like a phone book matching people to phone numbers. Caching web pages is the process of saving snapshots of each page so they don't have to be regenerated for every visit.

The process of understanding if your website's issue is due to its DNS cache being corrupted might not be straightforward, but once you know where the problem is, fixing it is a simple process. There are several situations in which clearing your DNS cache can be useful, and this video explores the most common ones.

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0:00 How to Flush DNS Cache
0:35 How to Clear DNS Cache on mac
1:57 How to Clear DNS Cache on Windows
3:08 How to Clear DNS Cache on Linux
3:56 How to Clear DNS Cache on Google Chrome

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📚Other useful guides about DNS

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Learn about DNS errors and how to fix them:

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[PaxeM]

for Ubuntu -> sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches (and not flushcaches)

[Neo-svzb]

For Ubuntu, this command worked for me - sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches

[harshilverse]

Hi, can you tell me how to view our DNS cache in a Mac. Please answer

[harshilbalaji]

how do we know that it has been flushed in a mac??