A mechanism that temporarily stores resolved domain name results to reduce repeat queries.
A mechanism that holds a resolved name-resolution result for a set period (the number of seconds specified by the TTL), reducing the load of repeated lookups. It speeds up repeat visits to the same site, but because the old value keeps being served until its TTL expires even after the record is updated, DNS migrations require shortening the TTL in advance as a precaution.
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