When I use the system hosts file to override DNS, Google Chrome takes longer than I'd like to pick up the changes, sometimes requiring a minute or longer to notice. Is there any way to make this happen immediately, or at least more quickly than it does right now?
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Navigate to chrome://net-internals/#dns and press the "Clear host cache" button.
Here you can find the documentation of Chrome's net-internals page
And don't forget to clear your windows cache:
ipconfig /flushdns
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Flush the browser cache first (not talking about the "clear host cache" function. And that is one of the things mentioned as working the quickest on the link posted by @XyZZy May 5, 2013 at 18:35
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Doesn't work for me. Chrome picks up previous changes just fine, but doesn't pick up my last addition.– mcvDec 9, 2013 at 10:36