Free Newsservers

[sander]

The xsnews server apparently requires a (free) account, see this page (alleen in het Nederlands ; sign-up requires only an email address so you should be able to manage nonetheless).

Are you sure about the xsnews account? I thought you could just access it over IPv6. I'll test it tonight and post the result.

[sander]

The xsnews server apparently requires a (free) account, see this page (alleen in het Nederlands ; sign-up requires only an email address so you should be able to manage nonetheless).

Are you sure about the xsnews account? I thought you could just access it over IPv6. I'll test it tonight and post the result.

Oops, you were right: xsnews requires authentication. See logging below:

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sander@fujitsu:~$ telnet reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl nntp
Trying 2001:4de0:1000:a7::2...
Connected to reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
201 reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl NNRP Service Ready (no posting).
article 12345
480 Authentication required for command
head 12345
480 Authentication required for command
quit
205 Transferred 142 bytes in 0 articles, 0 groups.  Disconnecting.
Connection closed by foreign host.
sander@fujitsu:~$ 

and

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sander@fujitsu:~$ telnet reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl nntp
Trying 2001:4de0:1000:a7::2...
Connected to reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
201 reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl NNRP Service Ready (no posting).
group alt.binaries.tv
480 Authentication required for command
quit
205 Transferred 101 bytes in 0 articles, 0 groups.  Disconnecting.
Connection closed by foreign host.
sander@fujitsu:~$

Strange, because SABnzbd is just showing connectons to xsnews and no errors/warnings at all:

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Connections

    * reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl:119: 5
          o Thread #1 -> 0023603a$0$17921$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.vol000+02.par2 -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.nzb
          o Thread #2 -> 0023603e$0$17921$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.vol002+04.par2 -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.nzb
          o Thread #3 -> 00236045$0$17921$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.vol006+08.par2 -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.nzb
          o Thread #4 -> 00236050$0$17921$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.vol014+16.par2 -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.nzb
          o Thread #5 -> 00236060$0$17921$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.vol030+32.par2 -> damn.small.linux-dsl4.4.2.nzb

So if SABnzbd is not reporting it is not being let in by xsnews, is that a bug in SABnzbd?


PS: As a reference the logging of a succesful manual NNTP session to the open Newszilla6:

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sander@fujitsu:~$ telnet newszilla6.xs4all.nl nntp
Trying 2001:888::119...
Connected to newszilla6.xs4all.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
201 dreader10.news.xs4all.nl NNRP Service Ready - newsmaster@xs4all.nl (no posting).
group alt.binaries.tv
211 1954761 200180598 202135358 alt.binaries.tv
head 1234
423 No such article number in this group
quit
205 Transferred 834 bytes in 0 articles, 1 group.  Disconnecting.
Connection closed by foreign host.
sander@fujitsu:~$

[jcfp]

Strange, because SABnzbd is just showing connectons to xsnews and no errors/warnings at all:

So if SABnzbd is not reporting it is not being let in by xsnews, is that a bug in SABnzbd?

I got similar results earlier (i.e. that same 480... error) using tcpdump; sabnzbd connecting fine and showing this on the connections page, but not actually downloading anything; all without any error message that one would expect with such a problem.

[sander]

I have reported this as a bug (http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=993.0) and the bug has been filed..

BTW: It's *not* an IPv6 thing; just a plain SABnzbd bug.

[guardianx]

can u guys connect to this server?

news.ipv6.eweka.nl

i cant connect to it.. does it req and acc and pw? and port is 119 right?
i could ping the server so i got ipv6 connectivy

[Shadowtester]

I currently have 4 connections downloading at 100kb/sec with no username or password and using port 119

[MageMinds]

I just tested 8 concurrent connexions and hit 1 MB/s without username and password.

My tunnel broker is Hurricane Electric.

[guardianx]

i guess my luck is crappy  with eweka

08-08-18 03:18:17,858 ERROR [downloader] Connecting 6@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119 failed, message=502 ipv6reader2.eweka.nl: Access denied to your node - ipv6@eweka.nl

[sander]

i guess my luck is crappy  with eweka

08-08-18 03:18:17,858 ERROR [downloader] Connecting 6@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119 failed, message=502 ipv6reader2.eweka.nl: Access denied to your node - ipv6@eweka.nl

So you are refused by news.ipv6.eweka.nl itself. Can it be you have a lot of ipv6-connections open to eweka? Completely stop SABnzbd, wait a few minutes, restart SABnzbd and limit the number of connections to 2 (for this test).

If that doesn't help, mail ipv6@eweka.nl to ask what's going on.

[Shadowtester]

Anyone having problems with news.ipv6.eweka.nl
seems like the last couple of days I have not been able to connect with eweka.nl my tunnel seems to be working fine since I can browse the internet using ipv6. Here is the errors that sabnzbd is giving me I am only trying to use 4 connections and had not been having any problems until the last couple of days.

2008-08-24 15:28:45,049 ERROR [newswrapper] Failed to connect: timed out 3@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119
2008-08-24 15:28:45,049 ERROR [downloader] Failed to initialize 3@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119
2008-08-24 15:28:45,049 WARNING [downloader] Thread 3@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119: failed to initialize
2008-08-24 15:30:45,989 ERROR [newswrapper] Failed to connect: timed out 4@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119
2008-08-24 15:30:45,989 ERROR [downloader] Failed to initialize 4@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119
2008-08-24 15:30:46,126 WARNING [downloader] Thread 4@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119: failed to initialize
2008-08-24 15:30:46,127 WARNING [downloader] Thread 1@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119: timed out
2008-08-24 15:30:46,127 WARNING [downloader] Thread 2@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119: timed out
2008-08-24 15:32:47,456 ERROR [newswrapper] Failed to connect: timed out 1@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119
2008-08-24 15:32:47,457 ERROR [downloader] Failed to initialize 1@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119
2008-08-24 15:32:47,457 WARNING [downloader] Thread 1@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119: failed to initialize
2008-08-24 15:34:48,148 ERROR [newswrapper] Failed to connect: timed out 2@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119
2008-08-24 15:34:48,149 ERROR [downloader] Failed to initialize 2@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119
2008-08-24 15:34:48,149 WARNING [downloader] Thread 2@news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119: failed to initialize

[MageMinds]

I too began to be unable to download from them ...

[shypike]

news.ipv6.eweka.nl never worked for me, it tells me I need a user account and a password.
I assume it's only for paying customers?

The reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl server works fine.

[sander]

news.ipv6.eweka.nl doesn't need an account/password when I use it.
However: at the moment the machine itself seems to be up (ping6), but the newsserver itself seems to be down.

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sander@fujitsu:~$ ping6 news.ipv6.eweka.nl
PING news.ipv6.eweka.nl(2001:4de0:1::1:1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=55.3 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4de0:1::1:1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=48.2 ms

--- news.ipv6.eweka.nl ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 48.245/51.809/55.373/3.564 ms
sander@fujitsu:~$

sander@fujitsu:~$ telnet news.ipv6.eweka.nl nntp
Trying 2001:4de0:1::1:1...

sander@fujitsu:~$ 

[MageMinds]

Here is the reply I received from the support at Eweka Internet Services.

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Hi,

We haven't stopped the free services, it seems  that the machine just has issues. We'll address them asap.

With kind regards,
Lucas van Schouwen
Eweka Internet Services

[sander]

news.ipv6.eweka.nl is back to normal:

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sander@ubuntu804:~$ telnet news.ipv6.eweka.nl nntp
Trying 2001:4de0:1::1:1...
Connected to news.ipv6.eweka.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
201 news.ipv6.eweka.nl NNRP Service Ready - ipv6@eweka.nl (no posting).
quit
205 Transferred 73 bytes in 0 articles, 0 groups.  Disconnecting.
Connection closed by foreign host.
sander@ubuntu804:~$