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Most ISP's dns cache servers honor the TTL defined in the authoritative SOA records, unless is 1 minute or less.

I think the average TTL time for a dns zone would be measured in minutes. It needs to be that low in order to do SRV load-balancing, A/B testing, etc.

In any case, in the highly unlikely event that they manage to overload the 13 servers, there's plenty of time for every domain to temporarily extend the TTL on March 31.



Most TTLs for nameservers are on the order of days.


The negative cache time is defined by the SOA minimum field. Forward cache times are defined at the RR set level.




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