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title: Clearing Your DNS Cache (OSes)
description: "## Windows To clear your DNS cache on Windows, open up the command prompt and type \"ipconfig /flushdns\" ![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-7.png) ![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-8.png) ## Linux There's no DNS caching service on Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, etc) distributions by default. If you use a…"
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# Clearing Your DNS Cache (OSes)

## Windows

To clear your DNS cache on Windows, open up the command prompt and type "ipconfig /flushdns"

![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-7.png)

![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-8.png)

## Linux

There's no DNS caching service on Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, etc) distributions by default. If you use a fork that comes with some sort of caching daemon installed, you'll need to clear that manually.

For example, Systemd Resolved (commonly found on Ubuntu distributions)

- Open up the terminal (**Ctrl+Alt+T**)
- Enter "sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches" - if it throws an error, you probably don't have it installed. Otherwise, it'll return nothing

If you use Nscd (RHEL + CentOS commonly)

- Open up the terminal (**Ctrl+Alt+T**)

- Enter "sudo service nscd restart" to restart the Nscd process. If you get nscd.service not found, you probably don't have it installed.

## Mac OS

Open up the terminal (Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal).

Enter "sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder" - you'll be prompted to enter your password.

If you're on an older version of MacOS you'll need to follow some different steps.

MacOS 10.11 and 10.9

```
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
```

10.10

```
sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache
sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches
```

10.6 and 10.5

```
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
```

[You may also need to clear your browser's DNS cache after this.](https://know.cynderhost.com/about/clear-your-dns-cache-browsers/)