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Flush DNS Cache in OSX

I can never figure out why Apple has to be different, and especially why the change (break) stuff that already works fine. Today’s example: flushing the DNS cache.

From terminal, these are the commands to flush the cache on several (relatively) recent versions of OSX:

Tiger
lookupd -flushcache

Leopard / Snow Leopard
dscacheutil -flushcache

Lion / Mountain Lion
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

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