(2) *ALL* authoritative servers are down or unreachable!

• This is bad; query cannot complete
• Make sure all nameservers not on the same subnet (switch/router failure)
• Make sure all nameservers not in the same building (power failure)
• Make sure all nameservers not even on the same Internet backbone (failure of upstream link)
• For more detail read RFC 2182

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