There was one post at webhostingtalk.com today which cought my eye. The problem waiting to be solved has been like this
Hey everyone, I’m a ‘little’ new to webhosting, but I just have a quick question about having a domain name, ie: (www.)aol.com resolve to one host and ns1.aol.com/ns2.aol.com resolve to another host. could this potentially work?
Well, as I said in a response to this post, it is possible, but some DNS entries have to be changed. In theory there is no problem with such a set up as your NS1.domain.com/NS2.domain.com are in fact name servers, you could use to resolve the IP address of your web site and thus they could be hosted anywhere. And best practise would be to have them hosted on a different server than your web site is hosted on.
On the shared hosting level this is done directly by your web host, but you can still manage your DNS entries trough a control panel like Cpanel and you can still direct the different records to different IP’s and thus hosts 
One example that pop’s up in my mind would be using Google Apps for email and a sub domain of your domain with another web host which would both require to use and set-up new DNS entries And it is the same with name servers – just adding and pointing names to IP addresses 
At firts it might seem a little confusing, but it is nothing to be afraid of. At some point in time you will most probably want to have your own name servers at one host and your web site at another. It adds security, redundancy and peace of mind Have a nice day and see you next time.
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