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

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9pj284$68 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Len Conrad  <LConrad at Go2France.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>delegation and glue data in gTLD-servers-servers.net is 2d, not 2 minutes.

What's this comment in reference to?  Where was "2 minutes" mentioned?

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