MiMiC0
join:2001-12-31
Ypsilanti, MI
| Comcast Usenet Servers Here
Well ever since the crappy transition to comcast from mediaone, i noticed all my news server wasnt working anymore. So after some searching around i found some pretty good comcast news servers that seem to work fine for me.
Heres a list:
STATE - SERVER NAME
California - news.ca.comcastwork.com
Florida - news.fl.comcastwork.com
Georgia - news.ga.comcastwork.com
Maryland - news.md.comcastwork.com
Michigan - news.mi.comcastwork.com
New Jersey - news.nj.comcastwork.com
Pennsylvania - news.pa.comcastwork.com
South Carolina - news.sc.comcastwork.com
Virginia - news.va.comcastwork.com
Hope this helps someone. |
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newview
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Premium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
| said by MiMiC:
Well ever since the crappy transition to comcast from mediaone, i noticed all my news server wasnt working anymore. So after some searching around i found some pretty good comcast news servers that seem to work fine for me.
Heres a list:
STATE - SERVER NAME
California - news.ca.comcastwork.com
Florida - news.fl.comcastwork.com
Georgia - news.ga.comcastwork.com
Maryland - news.md.comcastwork.com
Michigan - news.mi.comcastwork.com
New Jersey - news.nj.comcastwork.com
Pennsylvania - news.pa.comcastwork.com
South Carolina - news.sc.comcastwork.com
Virginia - news.va.comcastwork.com
Hope this helps someone.
Looks like they're all aliases to @home news servers . . . and my state does work.
12/31/01 17:08:42 dns news.ca.comcastwork.com
Canonical name: news1.alsv1.occa.home.com
Aliases:
news.ca.comcastwork.com
news.rdc1.occa.home.com
Addresses: 24.1.160.91
12/31/01 17:09:49 dns news.fl.comcastwork.com
Canonical name: news1.rdc1.fl.home.com
Aliases:
news.fl.comcastwork.com
news.rdc1.fl.home.com
Addresses: 24.2.3.74
12/31/01 17:10:38 dns news.ga.comcastwork.com
Canonical name: news2.nash1.tn.home.com
Aliases:
news.ga.comcastwork.com
news.chmbl1.ga.home.com
news.rdc1.ga.home.com
Addresses: 65.14.16.82
12/31/01 17:11:16 dns news.md.comcastwork.com
Canonical name: news1.rdc1.md.home.com
Aliases:
news.md.comcastwork.com
news.rdc1.md.home.com
Addresses: 24.2.2.74
12/31/01 17:12:25 dns news.nj.comcastwork.com
Canonical name: news1.rdc1.nj.home.com
Aliases:
news.nj.comcastwork.com
news.rdc1.nj.home.com
Addresses: 24.3.128.74
12/31/01 17:13:02 dns news.pa.comcastwork.com
Canonical name: news1.rdc2.pa.home.com
Aliases:
news.pa.comcastwork.com
Addresses: 24.12.106.199
12/31/01 17:13:29 dns news.sc.comcastwork.com
Canonical name: news2.nash1.tn.home.com
Aliases:
news.sc.comcastwork.com
news.rdc1.sc.home.com
news.rdc1.tn.home.com
Addresses: 65.14.16.82
12/31/01 17:14:10 dns news.va.comcastwork.com
Canonical name: news1.rdc1.va.home.com
Aliases:
news.va.comcastwork.com
news.rdc1.va.home.com
Addresses: 24.2.32.74
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NPire
join:2001-05-01
New York, NY
|  Hopefully the aliases will point somewhere else after the 28th...
[text was edited by author 2001-12-31 18:04:18] |
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theoldmoose
join:2001-12-30
Ann Arbor, MI
| reply to MiMiC0
Well, there's a breath of fresh air. Thanks for digging this up. Hopefully, these won't all disappear anytime soon. Wonder why ComCast has been telling everyone that they don't have any newsgroup servers? Looks like newsgroup servers to me, and it looks like they are ComCast property, too. |
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CodeMunger
join:2001-12-31
Ypsilanti, MI
| Judging from the naming convention (comcastwork) they are probably servers meant to be used by comcast employees. That way they can get to their porn and warez. LOL, just joking...
I would expect to see these servers disappear ( i hope not!). |
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newview
Ex .. Ex .. Exactly
Premium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
| reply to theoldmoose
said by theoldmoose:
Well, there's a breath of fresh air. Thanks for digging this up. Hopefully, these won't all disappear anytime soon. Wonder why ComCast has been telling everyone that they don't have any newsgroup servers? Looks like newsgroup servers to me, and it looks like they are ComCast property, too.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure these aren't Comcast's servers. These are the @home servers with another name or alias tacked on to allow access to @home servers from banks of IP's associated with Comcast users.
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NPire
join:2001-05-01
New York, NY | No, you are absolutely correct. We are all just hoping that if they took the time to set up aliases to the old servers, they will point them to new comcast servers eventually... |
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Gutter8
join:2001-12-30
| reply to MiMiC0
Nice sleuthing...
Unfortunately, I wouldn't expect these to stay accessible for long. These news servers are meant to be used by Comcast's Business/Work subscribers (See: »www.comcastwork.com/). This is cable-based Internet access for small businesses. Comcast probably just isn't filtering their access to residential users yet, which is usually done by IP address.
The fact that they are posted in these forums will probably expedite the filtering unfortunately. :-(
[text was edited by author 2001-12-31 18:47:09] |
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newview
Ex .. Ex .. Exactly
Premium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
| reply to NPire
said by NPire:
No, you are absolutely correct. We are all just hoping that if they took the time to set up aliases to the old servers, they will point them to new comcast servers eventually...
. . . or perhaps this was part of the big $ they paid @home and the news servers will eventually lose the home.com alias and IP's and belong to Comcast? (I'm just speculating)
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newview
Ex .. Ex .. Exactly
Premium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
| reply to Gutter8
said by Gutter:
Nice sleuthing...
Unfortunately, I wouldn't expect these to stay accessible for long. These news servers are meant to be used by Comcast's Business/Work subscribers (See: »www.comcastwork.com/). This is cable-based Internet access for small businesses. Comcast probably just isn't filtering their access to residential users yet, which is usually done by IP address.
The fact that they are posted in these forums will probably expedite the filtering unfortunately. :-(
[text was edited by author 2001-12-31 18:47:09]
Yeah . . . great post MiMiC
Here's another that works . . .
news.salsbr01.md.comcast.net
12/31/01 19:03:53 dns news.salsbr01.md.comcast.net
Canonical name: news1.rdc1.md.home.com
Aliases: news.salsbr01.md.comcast.net
Addresses: 24.2.2.74
and by this naming convention possibly the following should work . . .
news.*******.(insert your state here).comcast.net
with ******* being whatever is showing up in your host name when you run WINIPCFG.EXE
Note that this is a comcast.net alias, not a comcastwork address
Anybody want to give it a try?
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MiMiC0
join:2001-12-31
Ypsilanti, MI | reply to MiMiC0
thanks, hopefully these servers will last a while, atleast until some other cable service becomes available. With all of the non-working websites, and slower speeds, im really considering leaving comcast. |
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watson2037
join:2000-09-03
Sarasota, FL | Their FAQ says no news servers after Febuary 28th...
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