[merged] binary newsgroups on NTL - Page 5

23-02-2005, 15:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris T

I'm not sure whether that means you get more or less than you expected

However, I have no plans to go finding out.

I feel I know you well enough to know that

It was intended as a 'heads up' for anyone else reading the post, sometimes, for some reason, people disguise illegal pictures by falsely describing them.

jtwn · 23-02-2005, 15:42

Good indexing site to take a look at the content - http://www.newzbin.com/

sherer · 23-02-2005, 17:28

still down at the moment.. at least yesterday I was getting a few posts through..

i'm using newstest.ntli.net can't even connect to pop servers or the text newsserver either..

Donald Macdonald · 23-02-2005, 17:50

Might be wrong but:

news.cable.ntl.com & news.ntlworld.com = news.ntli.net and is load balanced over

62.243.162.201
62.243.162.202
62.243.162.203
62.243.162.205
62.243.162.206
62.243.162.207.

None of these ip addresses are responding to pings tonight.

Tracing route to the server stops at "win-dc-b-v903.inet.ntl.com" (213.105.174.38)

Looks like it's all been switched off

sherer · 23-02-2005, 18:01

even worse is that with the cutbacks it won't get fixed now either.. prob when it does come back we won't get all the old posts either by now

IanUK · 23-02-2005, 18:28

Quote:

'The next update on this issue will be early afternoon today.'

Thats from the Service status page, its now evening...

same old same old...
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Quote:

62.243.162.201
62.243.162.202
62.243.162.203
62.243.162.205
62.243.162.206
62.243.162.207

Those ip addresses you quoted resolve to tele.dk here ????

Donald Macdonald · 23-02-2005, 19:59

Standing Corrected

62.253.162.201
62.253.162.202
62.253.162.203
62.253.162.205
62.253.162.206
62.253.162.207

With a mistake like that you could be excused for thinking I worked for NTL

AcerKev · 23-02-2005, 20:22

From Tescos service status

http://memberservices.tesco.net/Tesc...iceStatus.aspx

(Tesco piggy back on NTL news.tesco.net = news.ntli.net)

Quote:

Service Other
Status Service Outage (all customers affected)
Last Updated 23 Feb 2005 11:32
Next Update Due 24 Feb 2005 11:00

Details
News Server A centralised network problem is currently affecting access to the Tesco.net news service

dwhitt · 23-02-2005, 21:12

interesting to see the iprange for news.ntlworld.com has changed to

Name: news.ntli.net
Addresses: 194.168.222.120, 194.168.222.121, 194.168.222.122, 194.168.222.123
194.168.222.124
Aliases: news.ntlworld.com

hmmm. network changes afoot to reroute the connections ?

and the binaries are now working...

PAZZA · 23-02-2005, 21:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwhitt

interesting to see the iprange for news.ntlworld.com has changed to

Name: news.ntli.net
Addresses: 194.168.222.120, 194.168.222.121, 194.168.222.122, 194.168.222.123
194.168.222.124
Aliases: news.ntlworld.com

hmmm. network changes afoot to reroute the connections ?

and the binaries are now working...

How do I find out the iprange for newsservers please? Or news addresses?

TIA
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Ive just refreshed 25 binary newsgroups, some have small files there, most are empty, BUT they do have todays date, so maybe be the morning we will be sorted (but covered with snow

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astra_lestat · 23-02-2005, 21:33

binaries do not work for me so far.

dwhitt · 23-02-2005, 21:38

in windows command line type
c:\> nslookup news.ntlworld.com

sherer · 24-02-2005, 09:03

the status page has been updated to say this problem is fixed now.. it wasn't last night when I tried at 19:00.. can anyone confirm if the binaries are back ?

Web-Junkie · 24-02-2005, 11:03

Fixed?

Dumped a few groups headers and did a compare between those groups on Astraweb v NTL and NTL has many missing/incomplete posts after the 19th!

I know of two meanings for the word 'fixed' too! One means to have repaired something so it works as it did before:

"The mechanic FIXED his car so it ran like new"

Or another meaning of 'fixed' implies damage/alteration of something so it doesn't work as it did before:

"The incompetent mechanic FIXED his car so it wouldn't work at all"

Wonder which version of 'fixed' NTL have applied here?

astra_lestat · 24-02-2005, 11:06

There is another note, where they say that all customers experience problems with e-mail and news groups and they are awar about it and are working on it.