
Please also check them as they could be finding tools that have yet to be evaluated and included here: There are several others who keep an eye on the list of DNS tools.

Tpsreport -ip 1.2.3.4 -port 53 -name -startingTPS 10 -rampInterval 1 -rampAmount 10 -rampMax 1000The process will begin at a slow rate of 10 transactions per second and ramp up to a maximum of 1k transactions per second.ĭNSPERF – DNSPERF a tool built by Nominum to evaluate the performance of Authoritative DNS deployments. The tpsreport tool can create a large number of queries: Tpsreport. Tpsreport is a DNS performance test tool provided by Akamai’s under NDA.Dnstop was created and maintained by The Measurement Factory. While not a tool to “measure” performance, dnstop is a valuable tool for DNS architectures that use open source DNS software. dnstop is a libpcap application (like tcpdump) that displays various tables of DNS traffic on your network.I like the test to see if “censorship” is happening on your DNS resolvers. This is a “sneaky” tool from Google that is trying to get people to use Google’s 8.8.8.8 DNS resolvers. DNS Performance Test – – I’ve never used this one, but others have said it is useful for troubleshooting DNS issues.It is useful in lab or commissioning environments. dnsblast is open source, simple, and really stupid load testing tool for DNS resolvers. They take an old workstation and set it up to run the queries on the customer’s side of the resolvers. I’ve seen several big SPs use this tool in their NOC to monitor the DNS resolver clusters.
#DNS SPEED BENCHMARK WINDOWS#
GRC provides the Windows community (and Linux/Wine) with a DNS Resolution testing utility to determine the exact performance of the DNS Resolver and the DNS Authoritative chain.

The following are tools that can be used to monitor, test, and troubleshoot DNS latency through DNS Resolvers Architectures and DNS Authoritative Architectures. This DNS Latency and Performance Test Tools document is provided to help Operators and others deploy effective DNS Resolver (rDNS), DNS Authoritative (aDNS), and other DNS Architectures. If you're curious about your DNS servers, I haven't found a better tool than namebench to investigate their performance.DNS Latency is the #1 “Key Performance Indicator” (KPI) for a DNS system’s success. However, it seems to run fine in Sierra (and Mavericks before that). It's not new code-the latest version (1.3.1) is from 2010. Namebench can also be built from source, so you could use it in Terminal, but I haven't tried that. (CHeck the FAQ for answers about hijacking, and anything else in the output).

Note: You may also see lots of scary messages about a DNS being hijacked you really don't need to worry about these. The report may tell you your current DNS is the fastest, or it may have recommendations for other servers. Thanks Marc!Īfter namebench has done its thing, your browser will open showing a page with results, including some "eye candy" charts like this one. This will open the results page in your browser-including the below-referenced eye candy-so you can compare the various DNS that were analyzed. Open Terminal and paste this command: find /var/ -iname "namebench_*.html" 2>/dev/null | xargs open However, thanks to commenter Marc K., you can still see the output once it's done. While the app still runs in High Sierra, you won't see any output.
