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by acdha 1687 days ago
This is technically correct but don’t rely on caching to solve this problem. Unless you’re getting a ton of widespread traffic you’ll probably be getting more cache misses than you expect - every time I did client-side monitoring, the DNS 90th percentile was quite notably higher than the 50th.
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The trend has definitely been towards lower and lower TTLs with cloud deployments and such. What used to be a 1 day TTL with a static host is now 5 minutes in the cloud.

Servers that use geo DNS (EDNS-Client-Subnet) also cause considerable cache misses since the caching becomes very granular.

Good points - also people started using more TLDs and hostnames as the average page started loading different service endpoints directly in the client, and I got the impression that a fair number of places were slow to increase their DNS cache sizes.