How can I flush the DNS on Ubuntu 17.04?

Question

I seem to have a few DNS issues at the moment since upgrading to 17.04 from 16.10 and went to flush the DNS but I can't find how to.

Can anyone tell me please?

I ran into the same thing yesterday. This took care of my issue: https://superuser.com/a/1200745 — Clay Oster, Apr 19 '17 at 14:01
I have removed the solution part from the question. But you can find it here. Please post the solution part in the "Your Answer" field below. It's completely okay to answer your own question and accept your answer. Also please don't add "SOLVED" tag to title. — pomsky, Mar 31 '18 at 10:41
I've found nothing works short of rebooting the system and walking on egg-shells — ThorSummoner, Feb 11 '19 at 17:47
If you are using Chrome and are having cache issues, it'll also help to clear Chrome's dns cache chrome://net-internals/#hsts — Peter Chaula, Jun 22 '19 at 11:34

Dmitry Sidorenko · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-27T09:43:06.647

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You may use this command: sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches

To verify that flush was sucessfull, use: sudo systemd-resolve --statistics

Sample output:

Cache
  Current Cache Size: 0
          Cache Hits: 101
        Cache Misses: 256

edited Apr 27 '17 at 09:43

answered Apr 26 '17 at 14:51

Dmitry Sidorenko

This answer improves on the previous one so I have marked it as the one true answer. – dibs Apr 26 '17 at 21:54
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When I run sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches, I get systemd-resolve: unrecognized option '--flush-caches'. – Nathan Friend Jan 19 '18 at 17:35
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Same as @NathanFriend - Checking the --help output, this subcommand was removed in 17.10 – Routhinator Feb 27 '18 at 22:48
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I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 and the subcommand is there. – the_drow Jun 05 '18 at 14:48
@NathanFriend same thing for 16.04 – Hastig Zusammenstellen Aug 10 '18 at 23:32
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Not there in Ubuntu 16.04 – adamczi Nov 27 '18 at 10:41

score 34 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '17 at 22:24

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This command should restart the local name service and flush the local DNS cache:

systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service

There is probably a way of getting it to just flush the cache instead of restart, but restart suited my purposes.

answered Apr 21 '17 at 22:24

tigs001

This seems like the only way to clear everything to 0 when running --statistics immediately after. On Ubuntu 18 – sledgeweight Oct 12 '18 at 19:45

dunderrrrrr · Answer 3 · 2018-03-31T08:28:40.817

0

Maybe thats what youre looking for.

Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:dunderrrrrr/dnscache.git
$ cd dnscache/
$ sudo cp dnscache /usr/local/bin/
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dnscache

Usage

There are two arguments that can be passed to the script, clear or stats. Both of them should be self explanatory.

$ sudo dnscache clear
DNS cache has been cleared!
[...]
Cache
  Current Cache Size: 0
[...]

edited Mar 31 '18 at 08:28

answered Mar 28 '18 at 20:10

dunderrrrrr

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Could you please expand the answer and maybe add installation process and usage? – pomsky Mar 28 '18 at 23:02
It's all on github. – dunderrrrrr Mar 31 '18 at 08:25
I agree, but link-only answers are not considered as answers on Stack Exchange sites. Thanks a lot for expanding your answer. – pomsky Mar 31 '18 at 10:35
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It's only running systemd-resolve --flush-caches then systemd-resolve --statistics. : https://github.com/dunderrrrrr/dnscache/blob/master/dnscache – Ricky Notaro-Garcia Jun 28 '18 at 15:00
Well, thats the point. It's much faster typing sudo dnscache clear. Time is money, right. – dunderrrrrr Jul 08 '18 at 10:06
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seems like a cheap attempt to farm rep. – Phil Feb 18 '19 at 21:48

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