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[Flesh-Dryer]

i can ping to it just fine, at least i'm assuming it's pinging correctly:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>ping test.news-service.com

Pinging test.news-service.com [195.114.241.60] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.114.241.60: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=58
Reply from 195.114.241.60: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=58
Reply from 195.114.241.60: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=58
Reply from 195.114.241.60: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 195.114.241.60:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 89ms, Maximum = 92ms, Average = 89ms
C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>

[kiljaden]

Try to do a telnet test.news-service.com 119 and see if you get any response. Also the retention is quite low at this time 4-5 days max on some groups.

[Flesh-Dryer]

this is what i got:

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201 Thanks for testing pre-alpha software, visit http://www.news-service.com NNTPSwitch-0.
12-CVS-20090112-NSE, 61930 groups available, no posting, slot 62, connections 1

Now i notice your slot was 8 and mine is 62, what does that mean? i did it again and now my slot was 40.... i'm confused. but i can totally join via telnet but not sab/newsleecher


OK i just checked it now cuz i woke up and i can't connect at all, only ping to it:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>ping test.news-service.com

Pinging test.news-service.com [195.114.241.60] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.114.241.60: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=46
Reply from 195.114.241.60: bytes=32 time=128ms TTL=46
Reply from 195.114.241.60: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=46
Reply from 195.114.241.60: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=46

Ping statistics for 195.114.241.60:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 125ms, Maximum = 128ms, Average = 126ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 119
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 119:
Connect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 23
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: C
onnect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 563
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 563:
Connect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: C
onnect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 1119
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 1119:
 Connect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 8080
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 8080:
 Connect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 443
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 443:
Connect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 80
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 80: C
onnect failed

Edit 2: Ok i'm back up to only being able to connect via telnet test.news-service.com 119, i tried using 80 after that and it just hung and nothing popped up, but 23 didn't work at all

[Flesh-Dryer]

from my school, i can only connect via telnet on port 80.... 119 and 23 just hang....

[kiljaden]

from my school, i can only connect via telnet on port 80.... 119 and 23 just hang....

You could try now for the past 2-3 days it's been working very well at least for me, but retention is 2-3 day max but curently spoilling i guess.
Btw freebin-auth.readnews.com and freebin.readnews.com seem to be back on after more than 50 days offline.
If you need a fill server free.sonic-news.com it's quite good because it's from an highwinds ( most of you know them as newshosting) resseler. So for a good fill server if you don't have newshosting this is the one for you . There is just one catch 50 Mb / day .
Another good fill server could be public.teranews.com who can now use ssl on 563 and 80 port and now supports headers compresion with ssl.

Hope it helps

PS: All of them are on Ipv4

[Flesh-Dryer]

Sweet....it's finally working for me, PLUS i got it working at school via port 80 (test.news-service.com:80)

[Flesh-Dryer]

seems to be down for me

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>ping test.news-service.com

Pinging test.news-service.com [195.114.241.60] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 195.114.241.60:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>
C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 80
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 80: C
onnect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr. Godlike>telnet test.news-service.com 119
Connecting To test.news-service.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 119:
Connect failed

BOO

well on the plus side public.teranews.com works on port 563 (SSL) and is supposed to work on 80, supports 2 connections. freebin.readnews.com and freebin-auth.readnews.com both work on 119, but my school blocks 119, and teranews is being lame and not working on 80, and my school blocks 563 as well.

[kickinazz]

I tried these servers out for uploading and none seem to work. Anyone know any free servers to use for uploading?

[MageMinds]

To upload I would buy the smallest block from astraweb and you'll have unlimitted uploading.

[StormFire]

Usenet is definately worth paying for either way. Just the speed is insane compared to torrents, something I'd happily give away money for. 

[Flesh-Dryer]

Freebin.auth is backup, eweka is back up, and xsnews and newszilla are still goin strong....

Connection wise:
Freebin.auth - 8
eweka - 8
xsnews - 5
newszilla - 5

Getting very close to line speed at around 580 KB/s (my line is like 621 KB/s MAX) this is all through Sixxs.

just thought i'd update

[phunkysai]

I keep having the same problems over and over...

I had 3 servers running at once for a long time, topping out my line speed. Then, every so often, 2 of the servers will stop working for no particular reason, and then eweka will not even work until I remove the other 2 servers and restart sabnzbd. Then eweka will run just fine.

The errors I am getting are:

[downloader] Connecting [email protected]:119 failed, message=502 news.ipv6.eweka.nl: Access denied to your node - [email protected]

I even get this when people are saying Eweka is up sometimes...

Weirdness...

[PacoBell]

Is eweka down right now? I can't seem to connect to it for the life of me. I looked at their homepage and they're advertising paid usenet access. Have they always done this or have they just now begun charging for access?

[Flesh-Dryer]

they've always had that.. eweka does that from time to time so you'l have to just ride out their downtime for a lil bit

[MageMinds]

I have the same problem and yes it's not the first time it happen... It will come back, have faith...

MageMinds