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namebench - Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility

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Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience?

Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google.

namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface.

Source: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

I posted similar software called DNSBench a while back, but this is much better and looks up DNS servers local to your area.

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Interesting, but it seems a few bad results can skew the test a fair bit (my internal DNS server came second last, even though it had the lowest total time and fastest response time, but a few bad queries messed with the average)

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  On 02/03/2010 at 23:38, Lexcyn said:

This gave me a Bell DNS server as the fastest, but they throttle torrents and other things ... guess they don't take that into account.

  On 03/03/2010 at 00:15, Pupik said:

How would anyone throttle bandwidth usage through a DNS server?

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