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Internet news, more correctly known as USENet, is essentially a large collection of public discussion forums. Each forum, called a newsgroup, covers a specific topic. Anyone with access to an ISP's usenet server and a newsreader program can access newsgroups. Many millions of Internet users participate in newsgroups daily.
Orcon can provide your ISP with either access to our news server for your IP address ranges, or a feed from our news server to yours to enable you to offer usenet access to your customers.
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- The cost for an ISP whose customer base is in NZ to use our news server is $150 /mth
- We can sell newsfeeds to overseas ISPs, however this is more expensive due to the additional use of our International bandwith. Please contact us for a quote if you are an ISP outside of NZ and would like a newsfeed.
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To use our news services, you would normally just CNAME the record for your news server e.g. news.ispx.co.nz to point to news.orcon.net.nz.
We currently do not provide a push news service where ISPs peer their news server with ours and the servers exchange messages between each other, we provide the following configurations:
- Cname news service
The ISP points their domain name news.isp.co.nz to news.orcon.net.nz
- Caching news service
This is where you run your own news server and ‘pull’ articles from our news server and then cache them locally as customers request them.
There is a soft limit to the maximum number of connects that is allowed per ISP - for a small-medium ISP in NZ you should not hit the limit, but we will contact you if your use of the service is deemed excessive.
To order the service:
Please contact an Orcon account manager who will ask you for the IP address ranges used by your ISP. We will then add these IP ranges into our news servers 'allow' list and bill you on a monthly basis.
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