Just an annoying problem I discovered today. I went to flush the dns cache and got this error. Could not flush the DNS Resolver Cache: Function failed during execution.
I went and checked the dns in services and it was running, restarted it anyway but still get the same error. I know rebooting will flush it but thats a pain, any ideas?

Sorry I missed your post earlier: I thought you were replying to someone.

Anyway I find this one idea among many in the search links that follow it:

Open Services...
Start | Run | Type: services.msc | Click OK |
Scroll down to and double click DNS Client | Set startup type to Manual |
Click Apply | Click the Start button | When the DNS Client service starts,
click OK and close Services


http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Co...roups&ct=title

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...g+execution%2e


And then I've just reiterated what you posted.

Must be past my bedtime.

Thanks Jephree, yeah I'd already looked through all that. The service is running, even setting it to manual still throws the error.
Having not found an answer anywhere on the net lol I stopped XP from accepting negative entries. Hopefully this will negotiate round the problem?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet
\Services\Dnscache\Parameters

DWORD: MaxNegativeCacheTtl

Value: 0