Question : Nbstat and ARP commands

I've been given some bullet point notes on 70-291 and there's a couple of things i want to know that look incorrect (to me anyway)

1)

I've got here "If a server's IP address is changed and you run a net view command to the server from another pc but get a system 53 error, you need to run a NBSTAT -R"

2)

If you're asked to chance a network card but need the same IP, you need to run a ARP - d command so users can connect to the server straight away


My question is, shouldn't it be flushdns command in both examples?

If not, why?

Answer : Nbstat and ARP commands

The arp -d will remove any entry from the local ARP table, which contains the MAC address related to the IP. If the IP changes, the MAC "cache" is wrong for max. 60 seconds (which is the typical lifetime of ARP entries). So the second one is correct. An flushdns would only help if the IP address does not belong to the DNS address used any longer.

The first one helps indeed. However, the server should announce itself fast enough to make nbtstat -R superfluous. But it is not wrong.
NbtStat caches the NetBIOS information - who is Master Browser, which NetBIOS services are propagated. With AD those information is stored there, with DNS entries, and then, and only then, a flushdns would help.