[147710] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS zone response speed test tool?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chip)
Tue Dec 20 11:02:00 2011
In-Reply-To: <27365203.1273.1324393807954.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:00:09 -0500
From: chip <chip.gwyn@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
Seems like it may be fun to play with
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> I've put monitoring onto my public website, and by far the largest compon=
ent
> of the response time it gives me is the DNS lookup -- 4-500ms, which seem=
s
> entirely unreasonable.
>
> Is there a tool that anyone knows about that will measure the response ti=
me
> of my zone servers, somewhere on the web?
>
> Is the sum of the times in a dig +trace the proper metric to look at ther=
e?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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