All our paying accounts have been given a 3 day credit because of the 50 hours when we had the recent DNS (domain lookups) problems.

There was a problem with the DNS servers causing 'host not found' errors. It's been resolved, but if still get that message you can use the server ip 69.16.185.250 instead of news/free.teranews.com.

We have re-enabled the public.teranews.com server after a longer than expected maintenance period.

We have re-enabled the public.teranews.com server after a longer than expected maintenance period.

All people can use public.teranews.com without a user name or password. It's speed capped at 128 kbits/sec per user. Our pay accounts are not speed capped, btw.

The unlimited server is back up, but should be considered a test server right now. We may have to take it off-line to make changes. Remember to update your client to include the @teranews.com in the user name. Also note, that you may have the old unlimited server's IP cached. If the welcome banner does not say 'public.teranews.com' you are connecting to the wrong server. In that case wait a day / reboot your computer / restart your client, etc...

You can connect with SSL by using the server ssl.teranews.com. Please note that we can not provide support in setting up ssl tunnels. If you do not have the skills to setup/debug a ssl connection there are many websites with tons of information. At this time the only testing that has been done was with Thunderbird (current version has bug and does not work) and stunnel (works fine).

You can connect with SSL by using the server ssl.teranews.com. Please note that we can not provide support in setting up ssl tunnels. If you do not have the skills to setup/debug a ssl connection there are many websites with tons of information. At this time the only testing that has been done was with Thunderbird (current version has bug and does not work) and stunnel (works fine).

All active users, including free users, have been given a 2GB bonus to their download limit to help with downloading all the new headers. The 2GB bonus will last until Friday at midnight EST (-5 GMT) for users on a daily limit plan (including all free users). Users of block plans have until their block normally resets. Please take advantage of this time to re-sync your client's headers to our new servers.

Our server's long retention times means there are a lot of headers to download the first time a user accesses a newsgroup. The 50MB/day free account users are having a hard time downloading the initial headers without greatly exceeding their limit. To solve this we have setup the billing system to give all new free accounts 1GB of download credits for at least one full day. Our days start and end at midnight EST so signing up shortly after midnight EST will give you two days to use the 1GB of credits.