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are all providers just astraweb resellers?

Posted: November 15th, 2012, 5:09 am
by 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?

Re: are all providers just astraweb resellers?

Posted: November 15th, 2012, 7:26 am
by 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.

Re: are all providers just astraweb resellers?

Posted: November 15th, 2012, 7:30 am
by paradoxni
thanks! that clears that up.