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		booi on April 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your w... I think he meant queries from caching nameservers that cloudflare does not control. I would argue the majority of queries would be fulfilled by these caching nameservers.

mschuster91 on April 8, 2020 [–]

Setting a sufficiently low DNS TTL will take most caching servers out of the question.

ec109685 on April 9, 2020 | [–]

Got it. It works for sites at certain amounts of traffic. Hugely popular might have more than one user per minute per dns resolver.

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