To save time when browsing the internet, your home computer will store DNS information locally. At times though, this may cause problems when trying to view a website after they have changed hosting providers because your computer is still looking for the old DNS information. To remedy this, you can “flush” your local DNS information to retrieve fresh DNS information. To flush your DNS, follow these steps:
*Note, this is for Windows only*
- Open a command prompt (click on “Start”, “run”, then type “command” or “cmd”)
- In the new window, type the following “ipconfig /flushdns”.
- If done correctly, you receive the following message: “Successfully flushed the DNS resolver cache.”