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 [email protected]. 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)

News Feed Info

Binary Peerings

Site Giganews, Inc.
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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*