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No, there isn’t. The specification as implemented requires no invalidation mechanism, which means no such mechanism across all caches exists, nor will it ever. The long tail kills you in such a failure scenario, and remember, people who make kitchen appliances write DNS resolvers.

Google Public DNS, at least, provides a public web form you can use to clear cached DNS records [0].

Not sure about any others.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache

Yeah, this was my first thought...I am guessing the author has never accidentally pushed out a bad DNS entry and needed to revert/update.

Everyone probably starts with higher TTLs, then the first time they mess up an update they switch to a short one.

The author seems to not appreciate how big a problem a misconfigured, long TTL DNS entry could be for someone.

Other reasons for short TTLs... maybe an IP gets blocked/flagged by a large network and they need to change fast... or a network path is slow and they need to move to a new location.