news.earthlink.com not resolvable

Marco Moock

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Jan 21, 2024, 1:59:00 PM1/21/24

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Hello!

I can't resolve news.earthlink.com, but I see posts originating from
there.
Did they mess up with the DNS or just want to discontinue service?

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Ivo Gandolfo

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Jan 21, 2024, 2:28:25 PM1/21/24

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On 21/01/2024 19:58, Marco Moock wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I can't resolve news.earthlink.com, but I see posts originating from
> there.
> Did they mess up with the DNS or just want to discontinue service?
>

ivo@paganini:/$ dig a news.earthlink.com

; <<>> DiG 9.18.18-0ubuntu0.22.04.1-Ubuntu <<>> a news.earthlink.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 52167
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; COOKIE: 5dd4ff97e44af7230100000065ad6f5c2a3a9c57ca64adc7 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;news.earthlink.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
earthlink.com. 1800 IN SOA carl.ns.cloudflare.com.
dns.cloudflare.com. 2331159753 10000 2400 604800 1800

NXDOMAIN as response, I think he don't have pay the renew of cloudflare,
and CF have closed their services... Or moved to .net domains?

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Marco Moock

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Jan 21, 2024, 3:10:19 PM1/21/24

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Am 21.01.2024 um 20:27:51 Uhr schrieb Ivo Gandolfo:

> NXDOMAIN as response, I think he don't have pay the renew of
> cloudflare, and CF have closed their services...

earthlink.com resolves, so I don't think this is the case.

> Or moved to .net domains?

Nope, doesn't seem so.

David Ritz

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Jan 21, 2024, 4:25:24 PM1/21/24

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On Sunday, 21 January 2024 19:58 +0100,
in article <uojphi$aj8m$2...@dont-email.me>,

Marco Moock <mm+use...@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

> Hello!

> I can't resolve news.earthlink.com, but I see posts originating from
> there.

Earthlink has not operated its own NNTP servers in many years. They
were outsourcing these services to Supernews (Giganews).

> Did they mess up with the DNS or just want to discontinue service?

news.earthlink.net and nntp.earthlink.net were aliased to
earthlink.us.supernews.com.

earthlink.us.supernews.com has address 69.80.103.36
earthlink.us.supernews.com has address 69.80.103.37
earthlink.us.supernews.com has address 69.80.103.38
earthlink.us.supernews.com has address 69.80.103.39

These still work, although my conversations with Earthlink support
suggest that Earthlink is not interested in continuing NNTP services
for their user-base. They're likely unaware that the access is still
operative, as removing the aliases would seem sufficient to dissuade
most users.

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David Ritz <dr...@mindspring.com>
Be kind to animals; kiss a shark.

D

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Jan 21, 2024, 4:31:27 PM1/21/24

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just curious . . .

(https://www.earthlink.com/) resolves to . . .
https://www.earthlink.net/
https://www.earthlink.net/about-us/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=earthlink+usenet
>...
>https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/earthlink-newsgroups.html
>Earthlink Newsgroups
>Web site:
>– http://www.earthlink.com
>Servers:
>– nntp.earthlink.net
>– news.east.earthlink.net
>– news.west.earthlink.net
>Note: in general those east of the Mississippi river use news.west.earthlink.net
> and those east use news.east.earthlink.net
[end quote]

Marco Moock

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Jan 22, 2024, 3:08:02 AM1/22/24

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Am 21.01.2024 um 22:31:21 Uhr schrieb D:

> just curious . . .
>
> (https://www.earthlink.com/) resolves to . . .
> https://www.earthlink.net/
> https://www.earthlink.net/about-us/

That looks like earthlink doesn't exist under that name anymore.