when 1 DNS server goes down ... why don't our clients hit the other one?

[Len Conrad]

>Let's say the IPs registered w/ Network Solutions are 192.168.1.10 and
>192.168.1.20.  We are moving one of them to another block of IPs to
>end up with 10.1.1.10 and 192.168.1.20.  About an hour after the
>switch, most of our names couldn't be resolved on the internet.  It
>was as if everyone was trying to go to 192.168.1.10 -- and not failing
>over to .20.

delegation and glue data in gTLD-servers-servers.net is 2d, not 2 minutes.

without telling us what your secret domain is, we can't check the delegation.

Len



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