**MERGED** No newsgroups server? - Page 2

progers · 10-04-2004, 09:52

[QUOTE=rdhw]For reference:

Almost all the publicly-known NTL news server addresses (e.g. news.cable.ntlworld.com, news.ntlworld.com, text.news.ntlworld.com) are all now identical aliases of news.ntli.net, which resolves to eight possible IP addresses on a round-robin basis:

newscache.cable.ntlworld.com internet address = 80.1.224.5
newscache.cable.ntlworld.com internet address = 80.1.224.4

but I have no idea whether these news servers are actually working.

Thanks for the information! I changed to news.ntli.net and the service is now working fine.....mind you, I said that when i changed to newscache.cable which, by the way are not working at all!

David25 · 10-04-2004, 10:12

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Originally Posted by rdhw

The exceptions to the above round-robin are all the DNS names for news servers which have "cache" in their name. All of these are identical aliases for newscache.cable.ntlworld.com which yields a round-robin on two of the proxy servers at Bromley:

newscache.cable.ntlworld.com internet address = 80.1.224.5
newscache.cable.ntlworld.com internet address = 80.1.224.4

but I have no idea whether these news servers are actually working.

These should have been disabled now the migration to the new servers is complete. The offical ntl line is to use news.cable.ntlworld.com or news.ntlworld.com for dial up.

However if news.ntli.net works then don't let the official line stop anyone

dimr21 · 12-04-2004, 13:54

Hi everyone,

can someone explain possibly in technical terms how the news servers went from very good to crap overnight? The servers work but everything is incomplete. How did they do that overnight anyone?

Thanks

Ron Jeremy · 12-04-2004, 15:16

Just use Google groups. Free and excellent. Much better than using a newsreader. If you want files then use a p2p application.
http://groups.google.com/grphp?hl=en

td444 · 12-04-2004, 15:33

news.cable.ntlworld.com seems ok, well on tv.aus its contents was pretty thorough... :O

IanUK · 12-04-2004, 15:33

Quote:

Hi everyone,

can someone explain possibly in technical terms how the news servers went from very good to crap overnight? The servers work but everything is incomplete. How did they do that overnight anyone?

Thanks

No idea, I noticed exactly the same thing, it was literally overnight about a week ago, the whole server is useless for binaries currently (even many text only posts are missing) back to Easynews I went....

td444 · 12-04-2004, 15:57

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Originally Posted by IanUK

No idea, I noticed exactly the same thing, it was literally overnight about a week ago, the whole server is useless for binaries currently (even many text only posts are missing) back to Easynews I went....

Maybe its the IP your issued? The one im on right now seems VERY good :S

td444 · 12-04-2004, 15:58

Im on 194.168.222.124 - try manual IP entry.

IanUK · 12-04-2004, 16:03

Hi, thanks for the reply, I just tried that ip, just the same - everything past about 6 days ago is incomplete

(I mean in the last 6 days) everything older than 6 days is good, the server was great then.

This is in lots of groups including shadowrealm,cores etc

td444 · 12-04-2004, 16:19

I've just been on alt.binaries.tv.aus - shocked it was complete. I guess they've lost some major peering.

I also have a Newshosting account which is prety amazing - web interface (saves on downloading newsgroup headers) and full speed 1mbit. You might wanna try taking something like that up, as it seems NTLWorld's (or for that matter, pretty much any ISP) newsgroups servers suck.

IanUK · 12-04-2004, 17:23

I have Easynews, which is very good, but I was rather hoping that NTL's *new* servers were going to stay good for a bit longer than a few days

ah well..guess the newsserver trial was a bit of a waste of time..

paulyoung666 · 12-04-2004, 17:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by IanUK

I have Easynews, which is very good, but I was rather hoping that NTL's *new* servers were going to stay good for a bit longer than a few days

ah well..guess the newsserver trial was a bit of a waste of time..

when did they get new servers ???????????

IanUK · 12-04-2004, 17:43

The trial was for the new servers I think, then all the ips were merged and we were told to use news.ntlworld.com instead of all the seperate ones (indeed a lot of the old servers newscache etc no longer work)

Matth · 12-04-2004, 21:59

The servers, though are actually working better than usual, but the binary completion is nonexistent - when there's nothing on them at all, I guess they'll work PERFECTLY!

DVS · 13-04-2004, 01:50

During the News Server trials there where significant problems with completion. NTL where supposedly investing in additional hardware to resolve that problem before the servers went live (and it did seem to solve the problem). I wonder if the additional hardware has failed?