Flushing Local Windows DNS Cache

Windows usually does this on every reboot but there are times when you may have problems, specially when running IPConfig returns a weird error message like “Unknown media status code”…

To flush the local DNS in Windows using ipconfig, do this:

ipconfig /flushdns

The other way of doing this is opening the Network Connections box, right-clicking on the active connecting and choosing Repair. This will release all network settings, obtain new ones if you’re using DHCP, flush your local DNS cache and flush the ARP cache.