Do you have nscd running? Do 'service nscd stop'. On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Luke Scharf wrote: > I've run into this problem before: how do I empty the DNS cache in Linux? > > I've changed a record in my DNS server, and ping still insists that the > server is at the old address. However, if I point nslookup directly at > any/all of the DNS servers, I get the correct (new) address. > > I've tried touch'ing /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf. I've > poked around in /var looking for the file that the DNS client uses to > store the database. It has to be a file, because the last time I ran > into this problem, a reboot wouldn't encourage ping or any of the other > tools I tried to actually query the server and get the new record... > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > -Luke > >