[PLUG] namebench

[Robert Munro]

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On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:49:59 -0800 Galen Seitz wrote:
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> "Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers
> available for your computer to use. <snip>
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

I was curious so I tried namebench. It's great!

A while ago it seemed that my ISP's DNS servers were slow, seemingly
referring a lot of my DNS queries to higher level servers repeatedly,
so I installed dnsmasq as a caching nameserver on my desktop machine.

Running namebench confirmed that there are faster DNS servers that I
can place in front of my ISP's primary DNS (Google and OpenDNS) so I
have done that. Now dnsmasq finds my habitual website haunts at 0 ms
and all my other website lookups average under 40 ms, or 150% faster.

Thanks, Galen!

Robert
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