Empty AAAA DNS Record with long TTL?

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Published on 2012-10-30T16:39:53Z Indexed on 2012/10/30 17:04 UTC
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I pay for a DNS service based on queries per second.

We are not using IPv6, but a large number of queries (that I pay for) are coming in for AAAA records. I understand that most DNS stacks will now ask for A and AAAAs at the same time, and that I can't change that.

What I /would/ like to do is put something in the AAAA records with a long TTL. (decreasing my hit rate)

Is there anything I can put? Null? The equivalent IPv4 Address?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

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