Umm news you post and it expires 4 weeks later or when you loose the disk.
News is a system for piping data to lots of places not replicating a database.
DNS has scaling, it has mirroring (just declare 10 additional NS entries
and set them up as secondaries - its fault tolerant too then) and it has
distribution (you'll notice the secondaries do their own data copying)
and it has caching.
> An issue to point out is firewalls. Let's not wander into using new port
> numbers. Using the existing well-known port 80 seems as good an idea as
> any. Most sensible system administrators hide their machines behind
> firewalls. Let's make sure we can work with them for user queries.
Firewalls pass DNS and port 80. An http interface is a good policy anyway.
People sitting behind truely horrible proxies can then still use it.
Alan