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PaulMycroft
10-05-2010, 02:01 PM
Hi all,
I hope someone can shed some light on this problem.
I made the DNS change last Thursday at 5pm PST for a new website at a new web host.
http://www.ladysmithcofc.com (http://www.ladysmithcofc.com/)
However, today (5 days later), I still see the old (red, dowdy) site on various computers at various locations (in office on Windows, at home on Mac) while the new one (clean, yellow, blue) appears on others (the Chamber office shows both old and new on 2 PCs!). No matter what I do to delete cache, restart browser, reboot computer, this does not change.
I called Shaw Cable yesterday (Monday) and they said the "DNS cache" will be deleted at their end at about 3pm PST, which will help "flush" the old site out of their servers' cache.
Nothing has changed today (Tuesday).
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, can you offer advice?
Thanks!
morestar
10-05-2010, 03:22 PM
Hey Paul, good to see you.
I've got the new version of your site and I'll bet most people do too by this point.
The longest I've seen a site not fully propagate throughout all servers on the net is about 3 days - perfectly - as you're looking for.
Other's have surely seen longer days - most likely but I'm not sure.
Those other computers that you've viewed your site on, have you done so in the past and prior to launching the new site?
Other should be here soon, they'll mostly likely tell you they can see your new site. I wouldn't worry too much anymore...
Most likely, the problem is local to the machine, I have actually seen this quite often after moving my own sites.
On the Windows computer, from the command prompt enter "ipconfig /flushdns" (without the quotes). This will delete the computer's local DNS cache, forcing the computer to update and get the new DNS information.
morestar
10-05-2010, 04:19 PM
Most likely, the problem is local to the machine, I have actually seen this quite often after moving my own sites.
On the Windows computer, from the command prompt enter "ipconfig /flushdns" (without the quotes). This will delete the computer's local DNS cache, forcing the computer to update and get the new DNS information.
Thanks wige.
I'll add, to get to the command prompt on a Windows machine, go to your start menu, then programs and it should be in that list. It uses a blackish icon.
;)
If it's not in that list, check your Accessories...
Robert Tan
10-26-2010, 02:27 AM
Wow, this is the first time I see something like this happened. So it does happen, eh? Geez...
In most versions of Windows, pressing the Windows Key + R will open a run dialog, where you can type "cmd" without the quotes and get a command prompt. In Windows Vista and later you can simply enter cmd in the search box at the bottom of the Start menu to get the command prompt as well.
HTMLBasicTutor
10-26-2010, 01:28 PM
I called Shaw Cable yesterday (Monday) and they said the "DNS cache" will be deleted at their end at about 3pm PST, which will help "flush" the old site out of their servers' cache.
Nothing has changed today (Tuesday).
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, can you offer advice?
This thread is a bit old and the problem is probably resolved by now but I have had this problem too.
a ) Clear your cache as already described by others here.
b ) Use a proxy server to the view site to see what others are seeing. If it's showing the new site then no big deal unless you are trying to install Wordpress!
c ) Change your browser to use Shaw's proxy server. PM me for address as I don't know if this is published anywhere, I called them to get it.
d ) Use the following to try and get the page(s) not cached at all (particularly important if the site is continually updated)
<meta name="Expires" content="Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:58:02 GMT" />
(using the above to stop Telus serving cached version on a site that has stats updated and visitors are not savvy enough to know their browser and Telus is caching the old page(s))