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description: Cloudflare One admins can now set a maximum time-to-live (TTL) for DNS responses at the account level and override it per DNS location.
title: Control Cloudflare Gateway DNS caching with a maximum TTL setting
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July 28, 2026

## Control Cloudflare Gateway DNS caching with a maximum TTL setting

[Cloudflare One](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/) [Gateway](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/traffic-policies/)

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You can now set a maximum time-to-live (TTL) for DNS responses returned by Gateway. When an upstream DNS record has a TTL that exceeds the configured maximum, Gateway caps it to your specified value. This ensures that DNS policy changes - such as blocking a newly identified malicious domain - take effect faster across all clients.

![The maximum DNS TTL setting in Traffic policies > Traffic settings, showing a numeric input field that accepts values between 60 and 36,000 seconds](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=2170,height=294,format=webp/_astro/gateway-max-ttl-traffic-settings.BRF3NUMp.png)

The setting is available at two levels:

- **Account level** - In **Traffic Policies** > **Traffic Settings**, under **Proxy and inspection**. This sets the default cap for all DNS locations.
- **Per-location** - Each [DNS location](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/resolvers-proxies/) can inherit the account setting, disable the cap, or override it with a custom value.

Two new fields are also available in DNS logs: `upstream_record_ttls` (the original TTL from the upstream response) and `applied_max_ttl` (the cap Gateway applied). These appear in the DNS logs column picker and in Logpush datasets.

For more information, refer to [Maximum DNS TTL](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/traffic-policies/dns-policies/maximum-dns-ttl/).

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