[sf-lug] free quality usenet servers? ... just a guess, but ...

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Michael Paoli
<Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>  And for those without IPv6 address, just hazarding a guess, this looks
>  promising:
>  $ dig -t AAAA newszilla6.xs4all.nl. +short
>  2001:888::119
>  $ dig -t A newszilla6.xs4all.nl. +short
>  $ dig -t A newszilla.xs4all.nl. +short
>  194.109.133.133
>  $ grep -i '^nntp[       ]' /etc/services
>  nntp            119/tcp         readnews untp   # USENET News Transfer Protocol
>  $ telnet 194.109.133.133 119
>  Trying 194.109.133.133...
>  Connected to newszilla.xs4all.nl (194.109.133.133).
>  Escape character is '^]'.
>  200 dreader17.news.xs4all.nl NNRP Service Ready - newsmaster at xs4all.nl (posting
>  ok).

Good stuff, but if you can afford to pay ~$13/month, you can get SSL
access to NNTP :-)
http://www.usenetserver.com
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
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