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

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu):
> >On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Deepan wrote:
> 
> >> Also it would be great if you can recommond some free quality usenet
> >> servers.
> 
> >If you can get an IPv6 address, I heartily recommend the
> >newszilla6.xs4all.nl service.
> 
> 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 to know -- but, as a reminder, what Deepan seemed to be actually
asking about was NNTP server _software_.  His full question on that was:

   Also it would be great if you can recommond some free quality usenet
   servers. It will be great if I can install them using yum or apt or port.
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Emphasis added.