DNS Record Problem

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kyle04

My website has switched to a new server.
I am unable to access the site from my pc (running winodows XP), which still has the dns record for the old server, with a time-to-live set at about 6 days.
I have tried everything I can find to delete/renew this record but to no avail :

all browser caches cleared
cmd -> ipconfig /flushdns
services.msc -> DNSClient->Restart

plus a few more.
The record still persists : cmd -> ipconfig /displaydns returns :

Record Name : mydomain address
Record Type : 1
Time To Live : 579239
Data Length : 4
Section : Answer
A (host) Record : 69.195.192.79 [the old server ip]

However ping "domain" (ie without the www dot ) returns the correct (new) ip....

Do I have to wait until this record naturally expires or is there something else I can try.

Thanks
 
Unless you have set a nonstandard "time to live" on your old DNS server, you must wait a considerable amount of time (typically 1-7 days) for remote users' cached DNS records to expire. This ordinarily can be prevented by setting the TTL to something very short (e.g. 5 minutes); however, for obvious reasons, the TTL change should have been made at least a week in advance of the server change, and it cannot be done retroactively. At least you'll know what to do differently next time.
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from HERE so it looks like you have to wait awhile.
 
Thank you.
I checked the displaydns again today to find the TTL was higher than last night, although is counting down.
I have added a D-WORD entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters to set the TTL much lower, will this work ?
 
I have restarted my PC after running flushdns and ran cmd->ipconfig /displaydns, and the TTL for my domain entry was listed, but with a value back to 1 week, ie on re-starting the pc the TTL for this record seems to be re-setting itself back to the start point !!
There must be some way I can overcome this ?
 
Problem solved !
After research I managed to open and edit the file ../system32/drivers/etc/hosts, which for some unexplained reason had the website and old server ip as a line entry.
Deleted this and good to go .....
 
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