Newton’s Lore

Having recently changed ISP, my command of the day is


dscacheutil -flushcache


which flushes your machine’s DNS cache to allow you to access your named sites via their new IP addresses once you’ve changed them in the DNS thus making the locally cached IP addresses stale.

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