Flushing DNS cache in Linux

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In most Debian based systems you can simply do: 

/etc/init.d/bind restart

or 

/etc/init.d/bind9 restart

to restart bind, which is a DNS daemon handling the caching (See /etc/resolv.conf). On some systems it is named, ie. on RHEL. 

/etc/init.d/named restart
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