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

[Simon Waters]

Daniel Wilson wrote:
> 
> Got it solved by putting 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.20 on the same
> system -- leaving the other with 10.1.1.10.  But why wouldn't our
> redundant servers keep us up when one was unreachable?  What is it
> about DNS queries I'm not getting?

Probably your delegation was not correct, or the zone data was
wrong.

Unless you give us the domain name thats about as much as we can
guess.

It fails over when you set it up right.