How does DNS "get stuck"?

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Published on 2010-04-05T21:52:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 22:03 UTC
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I recently registered a domain and got hosting from Dreamhost. But when even after three days, the website was not accessible, I contacted support about it. This is the response the support person gave me:

"My apologies! The DNS had gotten stuck, so I went ahead and pushed that through for you. Please allow 2-3 hours for the DNS to propagate."

Now I have to say that my knowledge regarding these things is virtually zero, and I couldn't understand what the support person meant, so I ran a search and it seemed that Mr. Google knew just as much as I did regarding this.

Can someone tell me what "dns getting stuck" means?

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