is there No longer a requirement for unique hostname - IP pairs

From: Tom Brown (tbrown@baremetal.com)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 16:59:36 EDT


   [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
:-(

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