This has been in place since January 2002 - it was announced (I'm pretty sure it was...)
The registry removed the requirement to have unique IPs across nameservers. Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brown > Sent: September 4, 2002 5:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: is there No longer a requirement for unique hostname - IP pairs > > > > [root@americium ~]# whois 209.249.251.98 > [whois.internic.net] > > Whois Server Version 1.3 > > Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered > with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net > for detailed information. > > DNS1.PMC2K.COM > NS1.DOMAIN-DNS.COM > > if you do a whois on PMC2K.COM and DOMAIN-DNS.COM (which is ours), > you'll see they have the same IP addresses for dns servers, which > at least until recently wasn't allowed. Host records had to have > unique IP addresses. I know verisign was supposed to be working > on removing this restriction.... > > My question is, is this new (the ability to specify new names for > old IP addresses)? Is this example a bug? We can make > great use of this if we can count on it being there... on the > other hand it is less publicity for our domain-dns.com service > :-( > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Always bear in mind that your own resolution to > http://BareMetal.com/ | success is more important than any other one > web hosting since '95 | thing. - Abraham Lincoln > >
