NetCologne NewsBone Information

Content: general - network - newsfeeds - plans - server - misc

Last update of this page: 04.05.2005


General information about the NetCologne Newsserver

Short description: NetCologne GmbH
NetCologne is a regional Telephone-Company
also serving full Internet Services.
Contact person: Gunther Nitzsche
Address: NetCologne GmbH
Am Coloneum 9
50829 Köln
Germany
email: gnitzsche@netcologne.de
use usenet@netcologne.de for operational matters.

Network connectivity relevant for NewsBone

Graphical overview overview


type of IP connectivity: links & bandwidths remarks
directly reachable
exchange points:
Lambdanet 600 MB/s
Level3 2 x 622 MB/s
Telia 155 MB/s
DTAG 2 x 622 MB/s
DFN 155 MB/s
Universität Köln 155 MBit/s
DE-CIX 2 x 155 MB (98 Peerings)
KPN Eurorings 1 GBit/s
Mediaways 155 MB/s
E-CIX 1 GBit/s (2 Peerings)
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-
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European: LINX 622 MB/s (95 Peerings + 47 Peerings XPE/LoNap)
AMS-IX 155 MBit/s (58 Peerings)
intercontinental: Equinix Ashburn 155 MB/s (43 Peerings)
Equinix Jan Jose 100 MBit/s (17 Peerings)

Existing peering newsfeeds (full & non-binary feeds only)

peering feed type country organisation news server Type
national DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DTAG
Arcor
fu-berlin.de
Telefonica
T-Online
de.kpn-eurorings
Online Service Nuernberg
Freenet
Kamp.net
ECNGS
Stueberl
R-KOM
rh-tec
Headlight GmbH
Xenologics
Swapon
AlbaSani
Unit0
Bürgernetzverband
jupiter.nic.dtag.de
newsfeed.arcor-online.net
newsfeed.fu-berlin.de
takemy.news.telefonica.de
newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de
npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net
news.osn.de

news.freenet.de
news.kamp.net
feeder.ecngs.de
stueberl.de
r-kom
http://news.rh-tec.net
news.germany.com
Xenologics
Swapon
http://news.albasani.net/
Unit0.net
buerger.net
F,@binar,<256k
F,!*jobs*
!*,!*binar*<100k
F
F
F
F

F
div
F
Text,<1MB
Text,<1MB
div,!*binar
div,!*binar
de.*comp.*,rec.*,sci.*,gnu.*
de.*,muenster.*
Text
Text
Text
European AT

AT
AT
BE
UK
DK
NL
FI
CH
FR
UK
NL

NL
UK
NL
UK
CH
NL
NL
NL
SE
NL
BE
NL
University of Vienna
tahina.priv.at
Chello AT
Wirehub.nl
ClaraNET UK
Tele Danmark
Kabelfoon
Pete.fi.eu.org
Solnet.ch
NDSoftware
PlusNet
Planet Technologies
Cambrium
Zen Internet
Zonnet.nl
Progon.Net
Eweka.nl
xsnews.nl
News-Service.com
hotze.com
zapto.org
supernews
telenet.be
Xentech B.V.
newscore.univie.ac.at

tahina.priv.at
newsrouter.chello.at
newsfeed.wirehub.nl
ClaraNET UK
Tele Danmark Internet
Kabelfoon NL
Pete.fi.eu.org
Solnet.ch
fr.ip.ndsoftware.net
http://nntp-peering.plus.net/
http://www.planet.nl/

http://news.cambrium.nl/
http://news.zen.net.uk/stats/
www.zonnet.nl
http://newsfeed-0.progon.net/innreport http://news.eweka.nl
http://www.xsnews.nl
http://www.news-service.com
http://www.hotze.com
usenet.zapto.org
Supernews
www.telenet.be
transit.hitnews.eu
F,!alt.bina*

oesterreich.*
F<32kb
F
F
F
F
fi.*,swnet.* ..
F,!alt.binaries*
F
F

F
F
F
de.*,ch.*,microsoft.*..
F
F
F
de.*,at.*..div
F
F,!*bina*
F
F
F
intercontinental USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA

USA
USA
USA
USA
Australia
USA
maxwell.syr.edu
siscom.net
newsfeeds.com
sienna.impulse.net
News2Me
Nuthinbutnews
Newscene
Superfeed
Moat.net
Glorb Internet Services
Giganews
newsgroups.com
nntp.be
usenet.com
Telstra
Meganewsservers
news.maxwell.syr.edu
Newshosting.com
feed.newsfeeds.com
sienna.impulse.net
News2Me
Nuthinbutnews
Newscene
Superfeed
Moat.net
Glorb

Giganews
Newsgroups.com
nntp.be - reseller
http://www.usenet.com
http://www.telstra.net
http://meganewsservers.com
F
F,<16kb
F
F,<16kb
F<32kb
F
F
F
F
F,<128k,@*bin
F,@*bin

F
F
F
F
F
F
Outer Space Orbit None

Plans concerning peering feeds

Information about News server(s)

Server news.netcologne.de
location (city+country): Cologne, Germany
Hardware: Feeder:
Compaq-PC nhp.netcologne.de and
Fujitsu-Siemens PC newsfeed-fusi2.netcologne.de
operating FreeBSD and Debian Sarge with Diablo-Software feeding
Reader Binary-News:
6 PC's carrying each a 2,3,6 and 2x8 TB-spool shelf.
2 PC doing Xref-Numbering.
4 PC carrying overview-data
1 PC doing accounting and athentication, also carrying the activefile
with NNTPSWITCH distributing the queries to the correct shelves

Text-only groups (news.netcologne.de):
a SPARC SUNFIRE 280
with a
SPARC SUN Netra T1 as backup Text-Reader-machine
operating system: Solaris 5.8/5.9
FreeBSD 5.1-REL
Debian Woody
Debian Sarge

News Service

news spool area: Reader:
abt. 30 TB


Feeder: 120/260 GB Article-Spool
software: Reader:
INN 2.4.2/tradindexed ov/cnfs-spool
NNTPSwitch
Feeder/Spool/binary-reader:
Diablo 5
nntp name: Reader: news.netcologne.de (Text only)
binary-news.netcologne.de (paid binary-Server)
Feeder: newsfeed-hp.netcologne.de and
Feeder: newsfeed-fusi2.netcologne.de
(this depends on the peering-partner; we are flexible here)
pathhost: news.netcologne.de
carried newsgroups: ( abt. 25000 Groups)
(see our current (live) active-file (news.netcologne.de,
and the binary-stuff can be seen here
online info: Reader:
various Statistics
Feeder:
http://newsfeed-hp.netcologne.de
main incoming traffic
http://newsfeed-fusi2.netcologne.de
main outgoing traffic

Miscellaneous info

If you are interested in peering or have questions about this service, email usenet@netcologne.de Peering Page gif

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