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 ## TTL Values
 
-TTL values can be set to allow DNS results to be cached upstream
+TTL values can be set to allow DNS results to be cached downstream
 of Consul which can be used to reduce the number of lookups and to amortize
 the latency of doing a DNS lookup. By default, all TTLs are zero,
 preventing any caching.