UPDATE: On OSX the Gas Mask application is excelling for switching between hosts files and along with the #2 workaround, it's quite effective. The SSL State for Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge cannot be cleared within the Chrome/Explorer/Edge Settings. Ideally there ought be a plugin that can purge the DNS and cache (specifically just the document cache and not the cookie cache) but I didn't find anything of the sort yet.

This is odd behavior but it works and is also just as effective.

I had to keep CTRL+F5 pressed for about one second which consecutively reloads the page a couple of times. You can run a separate instance of the browser as another user and clearing the cache in that account will not interfere with your regular browsing cache. This is cumbersome if you use your browser for regular browsing. Open an incognito window and the new DNS mappings for the domain will be effective immediately.Ĭlear the browser cache. After clearing the DNS cache through chrome://net-internals/#dns (or using an extension that achieves the same result): I know this is an old question but I got annoyed by same the complaints as others: even after clearing the cache it can still take a minute or two for the new DNS changes to kick in.

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