Giganews expands into Hong Kong

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http://www.giganews.com/news/article/giganews-expands-into-asia.html

Austin, TX - Giganews, Inc., the world's foremost premium Usenet access provider, has established a news server cluster in Hong Kong, providing faster and more reliable access to members throughout the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and many other nations. This expansion marks the first infrastructure deployment by Giganews into the Asia Pacific region.

Giganews is also seeking regional Internet service providers to establish peering with their Hong Kong cluster. Peering with Giganews' Hong Kong cluster is available at the Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX
 
Does anyone have any idea what the server address (ip or .com) is for this new site? As a lark, tried the obvious (going by the long established news-europe.giganews.com template), news-asia.giganews.com and news-pacific.giganews.com, but no go.

At any rate, would think it interesting from a technical standpoint to tracert to the new site, get a kick out of it.

BTW, as a former resident of Austin, TX (UT grad, class of 1979, left the city in 1984 after some 'side trips' to grad school and interesting Middle East sojourns due to my US Government affiliations), I've always wondered who it was that started this outfit (Giganews, 1998).

Probably worst decision in my life: Came to the (wrong!) conclusion that Michael Dell would be 'squashed' by the legal (IBM and others) and technical problems with his startup 'Dell Computers'. If I had come to a different conclusion, I'd now be hobnobbing with fellow zillionaries Paul Allen and crowd.
 
Beck38 said:
Does anyone have any idea what the server address (ip or .com) is for this new site? As a lark, tried the obvious (going by the long established news-europe.giganews.com template), news-asia.giganews.com and news-pacific.giganews.com, but no go.
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Using an online traceroute script hosted on a Hong Kong server I was able to trace news.giganews.com and get the IP (203.170.29.131).
Looks like it doesn't yet have its own hostname, just resolves to news.giganews.com ;)
 
UsenetGuy said:
Thanks for going the 'extra' step there, I was (as usual) about half asleep earlier, and it appears that (at least from my location on the Verizon backbone) that it routes through PCCW; The hop count and delay is VERY low (I'm on the west coast). Since their hub is in San Jose, I'm wondering which trans-pacific cable they are on, but that's the engineer in me coming out.
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