are all providers just astraweb resellers?

[paradoxni]

Hey folks,

I currently use usenetserver and decided to try Sunnyusenet in NL.

When downloading I hit the status page in Sabnzbd and all connections mention "astraweb". I switched back to usenetserver and it seems all connections on this also show astraweb. Are they all just resellers for the same provider?

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Server: news.sunnyusenet.com
Status: Enabled
# Connections: 10
Article identifier
1349980807.12871.9@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980807.13795.10@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980792.00618.66@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980807.15543.12@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980807.14514.11@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980791.98125.64@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980807.09694.7@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980791.99379.65@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980791.38811.46@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980807.11793.8@eu.news.astraweb.com

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Server: news.usenetserver.com
Status: Enabled
# Connections: 18
Article identifier
1349980790.48183.17@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.39681.14@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.50319.19@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.47030.16@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.37271.13@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.63242.22@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.49312.18@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.51302.20@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.62208.21@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.32604.12@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.44876.15@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.64395.23@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980790.28903.11@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980814.39149.2@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980814.43295.3@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980814.44392.4@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980814.45592.5@eu.news.astraweb.com
1349980814.46555.6@eu.news.astraweb.com

[sander]

No. As your post says, that's the "Article identifier". So someone *posted* that content via eu.news.astraweb.com.

If you want to find out if your newsprovider is a reseller, you can use DNS-lookups and the reverse DNS-lookups.

[paradoxni]

thanks! that clears that up.