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The content is that it's tricky to truly flush the DNS cache on OS X and the command to do it gets changed a lot with new releases. It's very annoying because it makes working with DNS very painful.

Any time I need to flush dns cache, I simply google "flush dns cache mac" and top result shows you the simply command to run: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202516

Having a simple command such as "reset dnscache" or something of course would be nice, but since it can already be done in a matter of seconds with a quick google I can't imagine it's that much of concern for apple of many developers compared to other issues.

What if ping was different on every build of linux. Shit gets old.

I guess that's really handy if your dns cache doesn't include a poisoned record for Google. Otherwise it's useless.

The process seems to change every version of OS X for some reason. So basically this script runs the appropriate command for whichever version you are using.

I've personally found myself Googling it at least once for each version.

It gets more annoying if you want to explain it to a non-technical OS X user. Maybe this little repo will help them converge on a command alias for the future

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