Comments on: Mac OS X – Clearing DNS Cache

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:30:15 +0000

@W.golf ::

I cannot recall what OS X even looked like in Tiger (10.4?) but Terminal.app should always be in :

Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app

If you can’t find it there or you’d prefer to try another program for the same purpose, there is one called iTerm which I used until Terminal.app got tabbing support; it’s at SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/iterm/

Better a late reply than never?

Good luck

By: David

David — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:11:54 +0000

A LITTLE HELP PLEASE?? I went to Installous and I searched for the application “worms”. I selected the right application of the search results, and it took me to the information and version selection downloads for this app, where I selected Version 1.0. I don’t remember, but I believe there was only AppScene.org as the list of sites to touch. I touched the one cracked by “Pro” and it took me to a white screen where it told me “Please update your DNS cache.”. Now, I found this website and I tried the command, dscacheutil -flushcache, which didn’t work in Mobile Terminal.

I copied the exact same command (dscacheutil -flushcache) into Mobile Terminal. I also tried the other command (lookupd -flushcache).

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I TYPED IN MOBILE TERMINAL:
MY-NAME:~ mobile$ dscacheutil -flushcache

I PUSHED THE “return” BUTTON ON THE KEYPAD ANDTHIS IS WHAT CAME UP:
-sh: dscacheutil: command not found

I don’t know why this one, dscacheutil -flushcache, and the other one, lookupd -flushcache didn’t work.

What can I do? (I also had a movie [torrent] prepared, and I typed in ./gettorrent the last time I went to Mobile Terminal, which was about 2 days ago. I didn’t know how to “un-prepare” it, so I just exited Mobile Terminal by pushing the Home button. I don’t know if this matters…)

Help would be very much appreciated, thanks!

By: Besworks

Besworks — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:18:50 +0000

Thank You! This was driving me nuts!

By: w.golf

w.golf — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:33:04 +0000

Need help. I would like to delete the DNS cache but unable to access the Terminal.app on my G5.

Any advice?

By: W.golf

W.golf — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:16:56 +0000

Need help. Trying to delete DNS cache, somehow cannot access terminal.app on my G5.
Any advice?

By: grateful!

grateful! — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:01:46 +0000

Thank you for posting this. It’s actually hard to find!

By: Muthu

Muthu — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:26:55 +0000

It worked. Great thanks.

10.5: dscacheutil -flushcache

By: g_face

g_face — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:39:33 +0000

Justin is right, the command is now
dscacheutil -flushcache
for 10.5

Thanks for this page – this solved my prob.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:37:02 +0000

Roy,
If it says something like this:

mac:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain localnet
nameserver 192.168.1.1

Then that probably means your router is acting as a DNS relay. Try logging into the router config pages, and the DNS settings for your ISP should be there someplace…

By: Roy

Roy — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:03:40 +0000

Hi, I wonder if you can help me. I’m trying to find out the names of my DNS server when I use the cat /etc/resolv.conf it says something about a LAN and gives me my IP Address. Whats that about? Cheers.