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DNS zone response speed test tool?



Doesn't do much for long term graphing and monitoring, but for quickie
issue detection or verification, http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

...Todd

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:00 AM, chip <chip.gwyn at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
> ?Seems like it may be fun to play with
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> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> I've put monitoring onto my public website, and by far the largest component
>> of the response time it gives me is the DNS lookup -- 4-500ms, which seems
>> entirely unreasonable.
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>> Is there a tool that anyone knows about that will measure the response time
>> of my zone servers, somewhere on the web?
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>> Is the sum of the times in a dig +trace the proper metric to look at there?
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>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
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>> Jay R. Ashworth ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Baylink ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? jra at baylink.com
>> Designer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? The Things I Think ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? RFC 2100
>> Ashworth & Associates ? ? http://baylink.pitas.com ? ? ? ? 2000 Land Rover DII
>> St Petersburg FL USA ? ? ?http://photo.imageinc.us ? ? ? ? ? ? +1 727 647 1274
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> Just my $.02, your mileage may vary,? batteries not included, etc....
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