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Scott Hollenbeck
Network Solutions, Inc. Registry
-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Klinger [mailto:evan715@home.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:54 PM
To: Hollenbeck, Scott; 'RRP List'
Subject: Re: [NSI-RRP] IP Address Uniqueness
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:55:06 -0400
> To: "'RRP List'" <rrp@nsiregistry.com>
> From: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenb@netsol.com>
> Subject: [NSI-RRP] IP Address Uniqueness
>
> The current NSI RRP implementation enforces IP address uniqueness within
> the
> NSI SRS database. An IP address can be associated with only a single
> named
> server.
>
> I've had one or two people provide offline comments that this doesn't
> allow
> registration of multiple server names using the same IP address. Yes,
> that's true, and we did it primarily to help reduce cases of bogus name
> server registration using IP addresses allocated to someone else.
>
> Does anyone have any feelings on whether or not a generic protocol should
> allow an IP address to be shared among multiple server names? For
> example,
> if a machine has two names such as ns1.example.com and foo.example.com
> with
> IP address 198.1.2.3, should we allow registration of both
> ns1.example.com
> and foo.example.com with the same IP address?
Absolutely. The way the DNS system works now is that multiple hosts can
have the same IP so this should be permitted in the registry.
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