TTL's set to 1 second

[Bell, William IT]

Hi all,
Our internet DNS host has set the TTL's for our DNS data to 1 second.  As I
understand it, such a small TTL essentially causes our DNS data to not get
cached anywhere, expiring nearly immediately after being looked up and
cached.  This then increases the load on our authoritative DNS servers (our
DNS host's servers) and the network/internet because the data is never
cached anywhere longer than 1 second.  Is this correct?

Here's a query for our SOA record (with pertinent details ommitted):

bash-2.03# dig @ds1.ourdnshost.com ourdomain.com SOA

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> @ds1.ourdnshost.com ourdomain.com SOA
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3747
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ourdomain.com.             IN      SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ourdomain.com.      1       IN      SOA     ds1.ourdnshost.com.
support.ourdnshost.com. 2003012807 10800 3600 604800 1

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ourdomain.com.      1       IN      NS      ds1.ourdnshost.com.
ourdomain.com.      1       IN      NS      ds2.ourdnshost.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ds1.ourdnshost.com.   1       IN      A       XXX.XXX.96.2
ds2.ourdnshost.com.   1       IN      A       XXX.XXX.97.214

;; Query time: 9 msec
;; SERVER: XXX.XXX.96.2#53(ds1.ourdnshost.com)
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 31 18:08:36 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 160

Thanks in advance for any info.
-BB