Can you ask a nameserver to refresh its cache for a given name?

[Adam McGreggor]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:33:12PM +0000, andy baxter wrote:
> hello,
> 
> Is there a command you can use to ask your nameserver to refresh its 
> cache for a given name? The reason is that a web (phpbb) forum I go to 
> has just changed to a different server, and they are saying not to post 
> until the name is pointing to the new server. Is there a command I can 
> run here to hurry this up, or do I just have to wait? I've looked for 
> options to do this in host and dig and not found any.

Ah, the wonders of a post-migration "bugger. should have dropped the
TTLs"...

whack a line in your hosts(5) file, if you're that keen.