sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder sudo killall mDNSResponderHelper sudo dscacheutil -flushcache. And while on mDNSResponder, if you want to flush you local DNS cache you can do the following (thanks to this help page ): 1. First, find the IP of your router on MacOS (if you have a Mac machine) Find the.
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also, i have no idea where windows stores its hosts file, but its there somewhere. And story 1 and story 2 on mDNSResponder, which seems to be the DNS resolver in Mac OS. NOTE:You can specify multiple DNS servers with the name-server command. They offer two sets of free public DNS servers, one of which is just for parental controls with dozens of filtering options. if you have only very few machines on your network, you should much prefer the easier method of editing hosts files. Here's a quick reference if you know what you're doing, but we get into these services a lot more later in this article: Best Free & Public DNS Servers. Here is a thread discussing making your OSX machine recognize your custom hostnames, and here is a HOWTO thread on the same.īe aware that if you do choose the second hostnames method, instead of DNS, you would have to edit the hostnames on both (or all) machines on your network, which would be automatic if you had a DNS server. The best free public DNS servers include Google, Control D, Quad9, OpenDNS, Cloudflare, CleanBrowsing, Alternate DNS, and AdGuard DNS. Here are some DNS how-tos, if you really do want to set up a DNS server. etc/hosts or NetInfos equivalent can do it for you. you don t really need to have a name server just to translate hostnames to IPs. setting up custom zone files might be a little complicated for your needs, however. Well setting up a name server means just having the correct config files, and then run /usr/sbin/named.