Newsprovider Xsnews offers IPv6 access

Nice: Newsprovider Xsnews (www.xsnews.com) offers IPv6 access via its news server readeripv6.xsnews.nl.


$ telnet readeripv6.xsnews.nl nntp
Trying 2001:67c:174:101:0:65:ff02:131...
Connected to readeripv6.xsnews.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Welcome to XS News
quit
205 Bye. 24 bytes written, 0 accounted.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I did a download test, and got line speed (100 Mbps).

Further analysis

readeripv6.xsnews.nl has IPv6 address 2001:67c:174:101:0:65:ff02:131
reader.xsnews.nl has address 94.232.116.131

Note the last "131" ... that is probably the link.

Xsnews is a wholesaler offering its services to resellers. The list on https://vergelijkusenetproviders.nl/usenet-provider-lijst/ shows the resellers of Xsnews.

Aeton XSNews
AstiNews XSNews
Bulknews XSNews
EasyUsenet XSNews
Easynews XSNews
Gebruikhet XSNews
NewsConnection XSNews
NewsGrabber XSNews
NewsXS XSNews
Power News XSNews
SimplyUsenet XSNews
SMSUsenet XSNews
SnelNL XSNews
SSL-News XSNews
Surfino XSNews
Usebits XSNews
Usenet2Go XSNews
Usenet4U XSNews
UsenetBucket XSNews
UsenetXL XSNews
Wondernews XSNews
XsNews XSNews
YabNews XSNews

So let's check Yabnews:

news.yabnews.nl has address 94.232.116.127

So same IP address as reader.xsnews.nl, except the last byte: 127 instead of 131. So let's check the 'corresponding' IPv6:

$ telnet 2001:67c:174:101:0:65:ff02:127 nntp

Trying 2001:67c:174:101:0:65:ff02:127...

Connected to 2001:67c:174:101:0:65:ff02:127.

Escape character is '^]'.

200 Welcome to an unconfigured NNTP server.

quit

205 Bye. 45 bytes written, 0 accounted.

Connection closed by foreign host.

Bingo. Still "unconfigured NNTP server", but probably reserved for Yabnews.

Old free service ... not anymore

FWIW: in the old days, Xsnews offered free access IPv6, but that NNTP server is not providing news services anymore:


$ telnet reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl nntp
Trying 2001:67c:174:101::1337...
Connected to reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
500 Thank you for testing IPv6. XSNews now offers IPv6 on all packages. Register now at www.xsnews.com
Connection closed by foreign host.

Note the subtle difference: readeripv6.xsnews.nl versus reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl ... so just one dot.