[dns-operations] connectivity for the .va name servers

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:18:53PM +0000,
 Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> Perhaps the Roman Catholic Church has access to other forms of
> communication that do not involve IP addresses? :-)

They certainly are open when choosing host names:

% dig +short NS va.
seth.namex.it.          <- A pagan god
dns.nic.it.
ext-dns-2.cern.ch.      <- Read "Angels & Daemons", by Dan Brown
osiris.namex.it.        <- A pagan god
ns-va.ripe.net.
john.vatican.va.
michael.vatican.va.
dns2.it.net.