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Indeed, for example Chrome wants to cache DNS results for at least a minute [1].

However, Chrome and Firefox cache the complete DNS/getaddrinfo response, i.e. all addresses. Therefore a server taken out of rotation will be quickly identified when a socket connection fails.

[1] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/net/dns/host_resolver_i...



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