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
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

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Server: news.usenetserver.com
Status: Enabled
# Connections: 18
Article identifier
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

[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.