Newsservers (aka Usenet servers) hosted at Xennanews
There is a great overview of Newsservers / Usenetserver on https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers ... except no Xennanews. So here we go.
Xennanews is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Xennanews serves Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other Usenet Providers all across the globe.
$ telnet news.caiway.nl nntp
Trying 91.223.220.18...
Connected to news.kabelfoon.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Welcome to news.caiway.nl NNTPSwitch-SVN-811, 85144 groups available, posting allowed, slot 55, connections 1
quit
205 Exit articles 0, bytes 0, groups 0, posts 0, postbytes 0
So news.caiway.nl points to 91.223.220.18 ... which is ...
$ host 91.223.220.18
18.220.223.91.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer vip18.xennanews.com.
... vip18.xennanews.com. Let's try if vip19.xennanews.com exists:
$ telnet vip19.xennanews.com nntp
Trying 91.223.220.19...
Connected to vip19.xennanews.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Welcome to Cambrium NNTPSwitch-SVN-811, 77143 groups available, posting allowed, slot 239, connections 1
quit
205 Exit articles 0, bytes 0, groups 0, posts 0, postbytes 0
Connection closed by foreign host.
So, yes, and it is meant for "Cambrium"
If so, let's find out which other usenet servers aka newsservers are hosted by Xennanews.
First create a list like:
vip1.xennanews.com
vip2.xennanews.com
vip3.xennanews.com
vip4.xennanews.com
vip5.xennanews.com
vip6.xennanews.com
vip7.xennanews.com
vip8.xennanews.com
vip9.xennanews.com
vip10.xennanews.com
vip11.xennanews.com
vip12.xennanews.com
vip13.xennanews.com
vip14.xennanews.com
vip15.xennanews.com
vip16.xennanews.com
vip17.xennanews.com
vip18.xennanews.com
vip19.xennanews.com
...
Then feed then into a newsserver checker
python tellertje.py | awk '{ print "./newsserver_check.py " $1 }' | /bin/sh | grep -vi "not OK" | sed -e 's/200 //g' | sed -e 's/ NNTPSwitch-SVN.*//' | grep -vi afo013 > xennanews-superclean2.txt
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