diff --git a/apc.module b/apc.module
index 31c5f2c..27b3067 100644
--- a/apc.module
+++ b/apc.module
@@ -1,4 +1,48 @@
 <?php
+/**
+ * Implements hook_xmlrpc().
+ */
+function apc_xmlrpc() {
+  $methods[] =  array(
+    'apc_drush_flush', // Method name.
+    'apc_drush_flush', // Callback.
+    array(
+      'array', // Return variable.
+      'array', // Input variable.
+    ),
+    t('XMLRPC callback to enable cache clear from Drush/CLI.'), // Description
+  );
+
+  return $methods;
+}
+
+/**
+ * XMLRPC callback to enable cache clear from Drush/CLI.
+ */
+function apc_drush_flush($variables) {
+  $cron_key = isset($variables['cron_key']) ? $variables['cron_key'] : NULL;
+  $clears = isset($variables['clears']) ? $variables['clears'] : array();
+
+  if (empty($cron_key) || variable_get('cron_key', 'drupal') != $cron_key) {
+    watchdog('apc', 'APC could not flush cache(s) because an invalid key was used.', array(), WATCHDOG_ERROR);
+    return array(
+      'success' => FALSE,
+      'message' => t('APC could not flush cache(s) because an invalid key was used.'),
+    );
+  }
+  else {
+    foreach ($clears as $bin => $cids) {
+      $cache = _cache_get_object($bin);
+      foreach ($cids as $serialized_cid => $wildcard) {
+        $cache->clear(unserialize($serialized_cid), $wildcard);
+      }
+    }
+    return array(
+      'success' => TRUE,
+      'message' => t('APC all requested flushes done.'),
+    );
+  }
+}
 
 /**
  * Implementation of hook_init().
diff --git a/drupal_apc_cache.inc b/drupal_apc_cache.inc
index 2099c55..9066ce0 100644
--- a/drupal_apc_cache.inc
+++ b/drupal_apc_cache.inc
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ class DrupalAPCCache implements DrupalCacheInterface {
   protected $prefix;
 
   /**
+   * @var boolean
+   */
+  protected $drush;
+
+  protected static $remoteClears = array();
+  /**
    * Get prefix for bin using the configuration.
    *
    * @param string $bin
@@ -73,12 +79,15 @@ class DrupalAPCCache implements DrupalCacheInterface {
   }
 
   function __construct($bin) {
+
     $this->bin = $bin;
+    $this->drush = (drupal_is_cli() && function_exists('drush_log'));
 
     // First we determine the prefix from a setting.
     $prefix = self::getPrefixSettingForBin($this->bin);
 
     // If we do not have a configured prefix we use the HTTP_HOST.
+
     if (empty($prefix) && isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
       // Provide a fallback for multisite. This is on purpose not inside the
       // getPrefixForBin() function in order to decouple the unified prefix
@@ -255,8 +264,10 @@ class DrupalAPCCache implements DrupalCacheInterface {
   }
 
   function clear($cid = NULL, $wildcard = FALSE) {
-    if (drupal_is_cli() && function_exists('drush_log')) {
-      drush_log($this->bin . '(' . $cid . ') was not cleared. APC cli uses a different memory storage than the webserver. For more info see: http://drupal.org/node/1278232', 'warning');
+    if ($this->drush) {
+      self::$remoteClears[$this->bin][serialize($cid)] = $wildcard;
+      // APC uses separate storage for CLI mode, bounce the clear request back
+      // into this method on all server nodes via XMLRPC.
       return;
     }
 
@@ -288,4 +299,38 @@ class DrupalAPCCache implements DrupalCacheInterface {
     $iterator = new APCIterator('user', '/^' . $match . '/', APC_ITER_KEY);
     return 0 === $iterator->getTotalCount();
   }
+
+  public static function remoteFlush() {
+    global $base_url;
+    if (!empty(self::$remoteClears)) {
+      // optimize '*' clears.
+      $star = serialize('*');
+      foreach (self::$remoteClears as $bin => $clears) {
+        if (!empty($clears[$star])) {
+          self::$remoteClears[$bin] = array($star => TRUE);
+        }
+      }
+      $args = array(
+        'apc_drush_flush' => array(array(
+          'clears' => self::$remoteClears,
+          'cron_key' => variable_get('cron_key', 'drupal'),
+        )),
+      );
+      $uri = $base_url . '/xmlrpc.php';
+      $response = xmlrpc($uri, $args);
+
+      if ($response === FALSE) {
+        drush_log('xmlrpc() error: (' . xmlrpc_errno() . ') ' . xmlrpc_error_msg(), 'error');
+        if ($base_url == 'http://' . basename(conf_path())) {
+          drush_log('The base_url might not be set correctly try using the -l/--uri option for drush.', 'warning');
+        }
+      }
+      elseif (!$response['success']) {
+        drush_log('APC could not flush cache(s) because ' . $apc_node . ' returned code ' . $response['message'], 'error');
+      }
+      else {
+        drush_log("APC-Remote $apc_node: {$response['message']}", 'success');
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }