[Opera-Linux] Flushing the DNS cache?

Kenneth Crudup kenny at panix.com
Tue Dec 16 16:40:12 UTC 2008


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?

	-Kenny

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