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I had a couple of questions:

  1. If I follow the instructions here, then will it also delete the history, auto-fill details, passwords, etc. from Google Chrome? (I just wanna double check before I proceed).
  2. Can I do that only for one website? I just updated my portfolio website with a SSL certificate. So, ideally, I just want to update the DNS records in Chrome associated with my portfolio website. Is there any way I can do this only to my website? As I believe, step 1 above will do it for all the websites.

Thanks.

Edit: I think I got it: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache. Could someone please confirm, though? Will this help my website open with 'https' instead of 'http' (the nameservers have got updated successfully).

Ganpat
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It will not clear anything other than your DNS cache, hence everything else will be where it was (passwords, auto-fill, etc).

The purpose of DNS is to resolve hostnames (such as google.com) and convert it to its IP address (172.217.12.46 in my case).

Your cache will simply repopulate itself once you revisit a website. If you didn't change your DNS server yourself, you are likely running DNS lookups through your ISP; but there are public DNS servers as well (such as google's @ 8.8.8.8).

If stale data is still with the DNS server, clearing your cache will not provide you any benefit. For example, your IP may have changed from 1.1.1.1 to 2.2.2.2, but if a DNS server contains outdated records then it may still point to the 1.1.1.1.

You can also redirect local traffic by modifying your hosts file.

K.Dᴀᴠɪs
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