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    Ipconfig /flushdns helps?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by stanny1, Sep 2, 2008.

  1. stanny1

    stanny1 Notebook Consultant

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    My internet is fairly laggy, then i use the command ipconfig /flushdns as instructured by my friend then it's okay again. Then for a while it becomes laggy again and I use that command and its somewhat okay again. What is going on?
     
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  2. T-Q

    T-Q Notebook Consultant

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    Your Windows runs "DNS Client Service (dnscache)" which caches names to IP address resolutions as I read on Google. :p What ipconfig /flushdns does is actually dump all the cached DNS entries.

    You can try disabling it all together temporarily with this article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318803

    If it works for you, go with the permanent solution, if not, nothing lost.
     
    T-Q, Sep 2, 2008
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  3. Wirelessman

    Wirelessman Monkeymod

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    Somehow your DNS entries are getting corrupted, verify of you don't have spywares or even a virus.
     
    Wirelessman, Sep 3, 2008
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