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Re: Benchmarking DNS servers

Richard — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:30:53 -0000

Thomas - Thanks for the tool, but:
I've been running it for about 5 hours, and it still hasn't finished. I had the same result at home and work (workgroup and domain).
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks, R.

Re: Benchmarking DNS servers

liliag — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:25:38 -0000

I must admit, I wasn't expecting to find such an interesting project on your blog. I'm happy I did though because I think that benchmarking DNS servers can really make a difference.
Lilia Gephardt @ dedicated servers

Re: Benchmarking DNS servers

paulscott56 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:20:46 -0000

Here in South Africa, this tool could do us very well! I have just ran the initial tests from my home ADSL, with some somewhat surprising results from the 2nd best and lower resultset.

My ISP maintained DNS won outright, but 2nd place and 3rd place both went to competing ISP's that I always thought were way behind the game here. Turns out that in my area if I moved to one of the WiMAX providers, I would actually see a better browsing experience overall! Thanks for the wakeup Namebench! (v1.1).

The cool thing about this is that in Africa, we are always looking for the slightest improvement on anything, so this has the potential to make a big difference!

Oh, BTW, OpenDNS and Google DNS featured waaaaaay down the list here (just in case you were concerned that there may be a bug as all reports I have seen so far feature these two)

Thanks for the great work!

Re: Benchmarking DNS servers

Marc — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:54:37 -0000

@pdjk: I also noticed significant improvement with opendns, but it annoys me more and more each day just how much it meddles with your results and suggests rather than just trying what you entered.

Re: Benchmarking DNS servers

Patrick Kettner — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:39:54 -0000

Thanks a ton for this. I have been looking for a better dns test for a while.
"In this test, OpenDNS is 194.8% faster than your current primary DNS server"

Well worth the 20 minutes.

Re: Benchmarking DNS servers

Andrew — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:55:57 -0000

Looks like an interesting tool. With so many people being 'mobile' this type of tool running in the background might be a good idea ... kind of an optimizer for the mobile world.

Re: Benchmarking DNS servers

Marc — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:38:32 -0000

looking forward to a win ver.. getting tired of horridly slow mediacom servers and their result interrupting like some opendns servers do