Tip: How to Completely Flush DNS / Socket Cache in Chrome

Or any other, Chromium based web browser.

If you have recently changed site nameservers, migrated web hosting, simply seeing sites with old content, or for any other reason need to clear your DNS Cache and it is not working, here is how you do it properly:

Assuming you have already done the usual (OS level cleaning, which you can read more about here):

> Type “chrome://net-internals/#dns” in the address bar and click “Clear host cache” button.
> Type “chrome://net-internals/#sockets” and hit on the “flush socket pools” button.
> Lastly, simply clear Google Chrome Cache by going to Menu > Settings > History > Clear browsing data

Enjoy the new DNS entries.