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Not if you respect the TTL on the DNS records. For example for drive.google.com it's 300 seconds:

    $ dig drive.google.com
    
    ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> drive.google.com
    ;; global options: +cmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62437
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 11, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
    
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;drive.google.com.		IN	A
    
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.225
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.238
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.231
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.228
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.224
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.227
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.232
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.226
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.229
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.233
    drive.google.com.	300	IN	A	74.125.226.230
    
    ;; Query time: 32 msec
    ;; SERVER: 192.169.1.1#53(192.169.1.1)
    ;; WHEN: Sun Jan 12 18:37:40 2014
    ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 210


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