[46563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re[3]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allan Liska)
Thu Apr 4 07:19:27 2002
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 07:20:06 -0500
From: Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>
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Hello Paul,
Thursday, April 04, 2002, 7:13:11 AM, you wrote:
PT> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Allan Liska wrote:
>> Yea, apparently in January Verisign changed their long standing policy of
>> allowing only one name server to be registered per IP Address. To
>> confuse matters even more, I don't think all of the registrars support
>> this, and I have not seen anything official from ICANN (not that
>> anyone cares what ICANN thinks).
PT> I'm not certain that this is entirely accurate. Certainly, ns0.ja.net has
PT> had two IP addresses for as long as I can remember (at least for the last
PT> five years...) and has been happily reflected in the whois and .net zone.
My apologies, I worded that badly. I meant, Verisign now allows
multiple hosts to share the same IP Address, e.g.:
ns1.example.com 10.10.0.1
ns2.example.com 10.10.0.1
I don't believe this was allowed prior to January.
allan
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