diff --git a/integration/route-conflict/e2e/conflict-policy-node.spec.ts b/integration/route-conflict/e2e/conflict-policy-node.spec.ts
index 768104853e..49072610b0 100644
--- a/integration/route-conflict/e2e/conflict-policy-node.spec.ts
+++ b/integration/route-conflict/e2e/conflict-policy-node.spec.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { NestNodeApplication, NodeAdapter } from '@nestjs/platform-node';
 import { Test } from '@nestjs/testing';
 import request from 'supertest';
 import { DuplicateModule } from '../src/duplicate/duplicate.module.js';
+import { HostListModule } from '../src/host-list/host-list.module.js';
 import { MultiUserModule } from '../src/multi-user/multi-user.module.js';
 import { listenOnLoopback } from '../../_support/listen-on-loopback.js';
 
@@ -138,4 +139,23 @@ describe('Route conflict policy (Node)', () => {
         .expect(200, { from: 'A' });
     });
   });
+
+  describe('host-list fixture', () => {
+    it.each([{ duplicate: 'off' }, { duplicate: 'error' }] as const)(
+      'keeps a route whose host list only partly matches a repeated one (%j)',
+      async routeConflictPolicy => {
+        app = await buildNodeApp(HostListModule, { routeConflictPolicy });
+        await expect(listenOnLoopback(app)).resolves.toBeDefined();
+
+        await request(app.getHttpServer())
+          .get('/users/me')
+          .set('Host', 'a.example.com')
+          .expect(200, { from: 'repeated' });
+        await request(app.getHttpServer())
+          .get('/users/me')
+          .set('Host', 'b.example.com')
+          .expect(200, { from: 'two-hosts' });
+      },
+    );
+  });
 });
diff --git a/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/host-list.module.ts b/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/host-list.module.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f149f13941
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/host-list.module.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
+import { RepeatedHostController } from './repeated-host.controller.js';
+import { TwoHostsController } from './two-hosts.controller.js';
+
+@Module({
+  controllers: [RepeatedHostController, TwoHostsController],
+})
+export class HostListModule {}
diff --git a/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/repeated-host.controller.ts b/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/repeated-host.controller.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f91e0cf7cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/repeated-host.controller.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { Controller, Get } from '@nestjs/common';
+
+@Controller({ host: ['a.example.com', 'a.example.com'] })
+export class RepeatedHostController {
+  @Get('users/me')
+  me() {
+    return { from: 'repeated' };
+  }
+}
diff --git a/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/two-hosts.controller.ts b/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/two-hosts.controller.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4db3bd6968
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration/route-conflict/src/host-list/two-hosts.controller.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { Controller, Get } from '@nestjs/common';
+
+@Controller({ host: ['a.example.com', 'b.example.com'] })
+export class TwoHostsController {
+  @Get('users/me')
+  me() {
+    return { from: 'two-hosts' };
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/core/router/route-conflict-detector.ts b/packages/core/router/route-conflict-detector.ts
index 47f227f8d8..a0f5331052 100644
--- a/packages/core/router/route-conflict-detector.ts
+++ b/packages/core/router/route-conflict-detector.ts
@@ -358,16 +358,20 @@ export class RouteConflictDetector {
 
     const leftHosts = Array.isArray(leftHost) ? leftHost : [leftHost];
     const rightHosts = Array.isArray(rightHost) ? rightHost : [rightHost];
-    if (leftHosts.length !== rightHosts.length) return false;
 
-    // Order-insensitive set comparison: ['a', 'b'] and ['b', 'a']
-    // describe the same allowed-host set, so they are identical for
-    // duplicate-classification purposes.
-    return leftHosts.every(leftValue =>
-      rightHosts.some(rightValue =>
-        RouteConflictDetector.hostValuesAreIdentical(leftValue, rightValue),
-      ),
-    );
+    // Set comparison, in both directions: ['a', 'b'] and ['b', 'a'] allow
+    // the same hosts, and so do ['a', 'a'] and ['a'], while ['a', 'a'] and
+    // ['a', 'b'] do not, although they have the same length.
+    const isSubset = (
+      hosts: Array<string | RegExp>,
+      otherHosts: Array<string | RegExp>,
+    ) =>
+      hosts.every(value =>
+        otherHosts.some(otherValue =>
+          RouteConflictDetector.hostValuesAreIdentical(value, otherValue),
+        ),
+      );
+    return isSubset(leftHosts, rightHosts) && isSubset(rightHosts, leftHosts);
   }
 
   private static hostValuesAreIdentical(
diff --git a/packages/core/test/router/route-conflict-detector.spec.ts b/packages/core/test/router/route-conflict-detector.spec.ts
index 6e603f8108..7d6465b14b 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/router/route-conflict-detector.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/router/route-conflict-detector.spec.ts
@@ -379,6 +379,58 @@ describe('RouteConflictDetector', () => {
       expect(conflicts[0].kind).toBe('duplicate');
     });
 
+    it.each([
+      [
+        ['api.example.com', 'api.example.com'],
+        ['api.example.com', 'admin.example.com'],
+      ],
+      [
+        ['api.example.com', 'admin.example.com'],
+        ['api.example.com', 'api.example.com'],
+      ],
+    ])(
+      'should classify host arrays %j and %j as a shadow, not a duplicate',
+      (earlierHosts, laterHosts) => {
+        const earlierRoute = makeResolvedRoute({
+          path: '/users/me',
+          host: earlierHosts,
+        });
+        const laterRoute = makeResolvedRoute({
+          path: '/users/me',
+          host: laterHosts,
+          methodName: 'meAgain',
+        });
+
+        const conflicts = RouteConflictDetector.detect(
+          [earlierRoute, laterRoute],
+          undefined,
+        );
+
+        expect(conflicts).toHaveLength(1);
+        expect(conflicts[0].kind).toBe('shadow');
+      },
+    );
+
+    it('should classify a host array with a repeated value as a duplicate of the same hosts listed once', () => {
+      const earlierRoute = makeResolvedRoute({
+        path: '/users/me',
+        host: ['api.example.com', 'api.example.com'],
+      });
+      const laterRoute = makeResolvedRoute({
+        path: '/users/me',
+        host: ['api.example.com'],
+        methodName: 'meAgain',
+      });
+
+      const conflicts = RouteConflictDetector.detect(
+        [earlierRoute, laterRoute],
+        undefined,
+      );
+
+      expect(conflicts).toHaveLength(1);
+      expect(conflicts[0].kind).toBe('duplicate');
+    });
+
     it('should compare across multiple routes only once per unique pair', () => {
       const firstRoute = makeResolvedRoute({ path: '/users/me' });
       const secondRoute = makeResolvedRoute({ path: '/users/me' });