I suddenly started to encounter 'time-out' error messages with
certain sites - yours being one of them! On looking further, I could
not find any logic to the dozen or so sites I regularly visit being
unavailable. I tried accessing these sites through an online proxy -
the sites loaded. I re-booted and ran all the adware / spyware / virus
programs - all to no avail. I managed to Google the problem and found
some obscure forum with the response 'go to command line prompt and
type "ipconfig /flushdns" ' which I duly did. Perfect - problem solved
- but why did I need to do this, what is a DNS flush and how can I
avoid this problem in the future?
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Well, I can't really say why that fixed your problem, since a reboot
is also another way of flushing your DNS. In fact, it's one of the many
reasons that so many tech support folks insist you reboot as the first
step when investigating just about anything.
But you seem to indicate that a reboot actually didn't help.
But, conceptually at least, it sometimes can help, and it's much
faster than a reboot.
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How does flushing DNS help resolve some issues, and while you're at it what's DNS?
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