How to Flush DNS in Windows
- Click on the ‘Start’ button
- Type ‘Cmd’ and press Enter
- In the Command Prompt window, type ‘ipconfig /flushdns’ and press Enter
- If successful, you will see the results “Windows IP Configuration Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.”
Applies To: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7
The ‘ipconfig‘ command has been around since very early versions of Windows and is used to show details of network connections. The /flushdns switch will clear any DNS records currently remembered, which means any name resolution will be freshly looked up from your DNS server rather than using cached records.
You sometimes have to run this as an admin account.
The command has been around since very early versions of Windows.