CNAME and A record have different TTLs. Which one will be cached?

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Published on 2010-03-18T01:02:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 1:41 UTC
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If a CNAME has a TTL of 1 hour that points to an A record with a TTL of 1 minute, will someone who looks up this CNAME have the entire result cached for 1 hour, or will it will keep having to lookup the A record every 1 minute?

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