Free Newsservers

[sander]

For now i'm using newszilla6.xs4all.nl , but i don't get full line speed with it like with eweka. Anyone knows of another nice ipv6 free news server?

xs4all is an ISP and not an news-provider, so the *free* access to newszilla6 is limited to 50 kBps per thread.

[sporadic]

yeah.. and 3 threads for person. i know that

Edit:

Live update guys - eweka just started working again for me 

[mck]

freebin-auth.readnews.com
seems to work with 8 threads unlimited but it gives fake messages so you gonna need at least 10% par files if you try to download from there.

[azbot]

freebin.readnews.com
were testing uncapped a few days ago, not sure how long for though
4 connections a pop

[naruto267]

is news.ipv6.eweka.nl down? I cant seem to connect to it. Keep gettin timeout

[sander]

is news.ipv6.eweka.nl down? I cant seem to connect to it. Keep gettin timeout

No problems here (see below).

Do a traceroute6, a ping6 and a telnet to port nntp to analyse your problem.

HTH

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sander@flappie:~$ ping6 -c 5 news.ipv6.eweka.nl
PING news.ipv6.eweka.nl(2001:4de0:1::1:1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=134 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=69.9 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=70.4 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=70.4 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=66.4 ms

--- news.ipv6.eweka.nl ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 66.463/82.445/134.915/26.277 ms
sander@flappie:~$ telnet news.ipv6.eweka.nl nntp
Trying 2001:4de0:1::1:1...
Connected to news.ipv6.eweka.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
201 news.ipv6.eweka.nl NNRP Service Ready - ipv6@eweka.nl (no posting).
help
100 Legal commands
  article [MessageID|Number]
  body [MessageID|Number]
  date
  head [MessageID|Number]
  help
  ihave
  mode reader|stream
  slave
  quit
  group newsgroup
  last
  next
  list [active|active.times|newsgroups|extensions|distributions|distrib.pats|moderators|overview.fmt|subscriptions]
  newgroups yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
  post
  stat [MessageID|Number]
  xgtitle [group_pattern]
  xhdr header [range|MessageID]
  hdr header [range|MessageID]
  over [range]
  xover [range]
  xpath MessageID
  authinfo user Name|pass Password
.
quit
205 Transferred 672 bytes in 0 articles, 0 groups.  Disconnecting.
Connection closed by foreign host.
sander@flappie:~$

[drhhitman]

was wondering if anyone could get onto "news.ipv6.eweka.nl" today, about 6.30am Monday "Australian Time".

I wasn't able to ping the server and it was continually timing out the connection through SAB.

[sander]

was wondering if anyone could get onto "news.ipv6.eweka.nl" today, about 6.30am Monday "Australian Time".

I wasn't able to ping the server and it was continually timing out the connection through SAB.

No problem here. See below.

Which IPv6 (tunnel) are you using? Sixxs, or teredo, or 6to4, or ...

Useful to post your traceroute6 / tracert6 in case of problems.

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sander@flappie:~$ ping6 news.ipv6.eweka.nl
PING news.ipv6.eweka.nl(2001:4de0:1::1:1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=53.8 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=31.7 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=32.9 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=31.6 ms

--- news.ipv6.eweka.nl ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 31.627/37.536/53.810/9.412 ms
sander@flappie:~$ telnet news.ipv6.eweka.nl nntp
Trying 2001:4de0:1::1:1...
Connected to news.ipv6.eweka.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
201 news.ipv6.eweka.nl NNRP Service Ready - ipv6@eweka.nl (no posting).
help
100 Legal commands
  article [MessageID|Number]
  body [MessageID|Number]
  date
  head [MessageID|Number]
  help
  ihave
  mode reader|stream
  slave
  quit
  group newsgroup
  last
  next
  list [active|active.times|newsgroups|extensions|distributions|distrib.pats|moderators|overview.fmt|subscriptions]
  newgroups yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
  post
  stat [MessageID|Number]
  xgtitle [group_pattern]
  xhdr header [range|MessageID]
  hdr header [range|MessageID]
  over [range]
  xover [range]
  xpath MessageID
  authinfo user Name|pass Password
.
quit
205 Transferred 672 bytes in 0 articles, 0 groups.  Disconnecting.
Connection closed by foreign host.
sander@flappie:~$

[tooonami]

Could some one let me no please what sort of things you put in your sixxs application, i will usse my real name and address but wanted some help on the part where it asks why u wont it.

If anyone can help it would be great.
Thanks

[Flesh-Dryer]

i said something along the lines of how i was interested in ipv6 and it's present and future uses. And that testing it with free ipv6 news servers would be fun

[Flesh-Dryer]

reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl isn't working for me... i can get newszilla and eweka to work just fine but can't ever get that to work (i have a user/pass for it btw...)

Anyone else have luck w/ it, or is it just down?

[vlad59]

Hi,

Yes, it's been down for months.

[kiljaden]

test.news-service.com is up again now without ssl and on port 119.
Enjoy

[Flesh-Dryer]

uh, i can't get test.news-service.com to work on 119 lemme try ssl 563

edit: not workin on 563 either....is this same ipv4 connection or is it now ipv6?

edit2: tried random user/pass on 119 and 563, not workin... tried 1119 as well, not working.... i'll try ipv6 now

edit3: ipv6 ain't workin for 119 either

(btw all these numbers i'm throwin out are the PORTS i'm trying to connect test.news-service.com to.... for those that are new to this.)

[kiljaden]

There is a problem on you're side . I just did a telnet test.news-service.com 119 and this is what i got

201 Thanks for testing pre-alpha software, visit http://www.news-service.com NNT
PSwitch-0.12-CVS-20090112-NSE, 61930 groups available, no posting, slot 8, conne
ctions 1

Edit : It's on Ipv4