Usenet Newsgroups Peering
This information is for other newsgroup providers who are interested in setting up a peering relationship with Giganews. If you are interested in a Giganews account, please review our signup information. If you are an ISP or an MSO looking to provide newsgroup services to your customers, please review our commercial services.
Send requests for peering to . Our general criteria are as follows:
- We will only exchange full binary feeds with peers who enter into settlement free network peering with us. We are currently able to peer in the following facilities:
- Equinix, Ashburn, VA (ASN 30094) - direct cross-connect required
- AMS-IX, Amsterdam, NL (ASN 30094)
- Anyone unable to directly network peer with us can still contact us concerning a non-binary peer relationship. Non-binary peers are encouraged to submit monthly statistics to www.top1000.org.
News Feed Info
Binary Peerings
- Site Giganews, Inc.
- Contact
- Send to assigned when newsgroups peering agreement met
- Accept from
news-out.nntp.giganews.com - Pathname
nntp.giganews.com - Max Art. Size unlimited
- Max Connections 8
- Hierarchies
*,!unidata.*
Non-binary Peerings
- Site Giganews, Inc.
- Contact
- Send to assigned when newsgroups peering agreement met
- Accept from
news-out.nntp.giganews.com - Pathname
nntp.giganews.com - Max Art. Size 100kB
- Max Connections 8
- Hierarchies
*,!unidata.*,!*.bin*
Pricing
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