[K12OSN] OT - how to clear squid ip cache?

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:47, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
>
> > OK, Folks. I tried Eric's suggestion to no avail (of course I cleaned
> > history and local cache). I tried than to recreate the cache files on the
> > squid server. I went further than recreating - I removed the old ones
> > first. All to no avail. Mozilla still goes to the old address of the test
> > site. And yes. I know it is squid, because when i remove redirection on
> > the k12 server, the browsers go to the correct site. Any ideas? julius
>
> On the squid server, or wherever /etc/resolv.conf points it's DNS
> resolution, restart named to clear the DNS cache.  If it is
> RH/fedora, use 'service named restart'.  The length of time a
> DNS address can be cached is set in the originating zone file.
> When someone is planning to change an address they should tune
> down the time-to-live ahead of time.  If your resolv.conf points
> to more than one resolver, be sure they are all restarted to
> flush the cache.  Nslookup or dig on the squid box will tell you
> where it will go.
>
Les,
	therein lies the problem - nslookup and dig point to the right
site, squid gets pages from the wrong one. julius