a) No they are persistent. I set the timeout to be something like 600 seconds. They are wanting to do a DNS query every time they are used for ???reasons????.

a) No they are persistent. I set the timeout to be something like 600 seconds. They are wanting to do a DNS query every time they are used for ???reasons????. b) I think dnsmasq is a better answer. My DNS is already load balanced in k8s, but that is getting hit pretty hard.