[WEB4LIB] Domain name "propagation"

[Dan Lester]

At 04:07 PM 7/19/99 -0700, spober at manhattan.edu wrote:
>Since the main campus domain name server was up and has the correct DNS
>information, and since this situation corrected itself (apparently
>spontaneously) sometime late Sunday night or early Sunday morning, it's
>making me very curious about domain name propagation on the Internet.

This is far from my area of expertise, but as you may know you're required 
to have a primary and secondary DNS server on your campus.  If the 
secondary server was down or the tables were corrupt I believe you could 
get the results you describe, based on some previous experiences at Boise 
State.  Intuitively that doesn't sound right, but I believe you'll find 
that such can occur.

dan

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