On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 07:59 -0400, David Rysdam wrote: > Actually, what I *really* should do is ask FairPoint why their news > feed is broken. But from discussions found online, I doubt they'll > even know what I'm talking about. I can't find any official claim that > "news.fairpoint.net" is even the right server name--I got that from a > fossil page in their domain that their site doesn't seem to link to.
Back in my ISP days (late 90's), running my own NNTP connection just used too much bandwidth. So I bought NNTP service from slurp.net (they seem to be out of business) and proxied through one of my servers. That avoided username / password processing. They accepted connections from my server. I controlled access based on IP address. Fairpoint is (or was) probably doing something similar. Nope. $ host news.fairpoint.net news.fairpoint.net is an alias for aff-news.neonova.net. aff-news.neonova.net is an alias for news.isp.giganews.com. news.isp.giganews.com has address 216.196.97.142 So you're directly connected to giganews. Hopefully, you can find someone at Fairpoint who can provide credentials for giganews access. Maybe giganews can confirm that Fairpoint is still a customer. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://dlslug.org/library.html http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug&sort=stamp http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
