Re: Flushing the DNS cache?

"Herman Robak" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.linux
Organization Core QA
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:39:56 +0100, Kenneth Crudup <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Herman Robak wrote:
>
>> Yes, this is the expected behaviour, and so far there is no way
>> to disable it.  It's a defense against DNS rebinding attacks(*).
>
>> Users who are frequently in the situation you describe either have
>> a serious network problem (which should be fixed) or an odd
>> environment (which they can work around explicitly).
>
> I'm on a laptop, and can be on 3 or 4 disparate networks in one day and
> have been bitten by this issue. What's this explicit workaround?

  If it keeps happening to the same server, put it in /etc/hosts.txt

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Herman Robak
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