(Won't change anything or mess up your system.)
#NAMEBENCH INSTALL#
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Based upon these results, users may choose to change the usage order of their system's own resolvers, or, if alternative public nameservers offer superior performance or features compared with the nameservers currently being used, to switch to one or more alternative nameservers.ĭNS Benchmark Feature List: The Executable Environment: Once the benchmark finishes, the results are heuristically and statistically analyzed to present a comprehensive yet simplified and understandable English-language summary of all important findings and conclusions. These values are determined by carefully querying each nameserver for the IP addresses of the top 50 most popular domain names on the Internet and also by querying for nonexistent domains. Results are continuously displayed and updated while the benchmark is underway, with a dynamically sorted and scaled bar chart, and a tabular chart display showing the cached, uncached and “dotcom” DNS lookup performance of each nameserver.
#NAMEBENCH PLUS#
When the benchmark is run, the performance and apparent reliability of the DNS nameservers the system is currently using, plus all of the working nameservers on the Benchmark's built-in list of alternative nameservers are compared with each other. ONLY by benchmarking DNS resolvers from your own location, as this DNS Benchmark does, can you compare nameserver performance where it matters. You might see someone talking about how fast some specific DNS nameservers are for them, but unless you share their location there's absolutely no guarantee that the same nameservers would perform as well for you. The point made above about the suitability - to you - of candidate nameservers is a crucial one, since everything is about where you are located relative to the nameservers being tested. This DNS Benchmark will give you visibility into what's going on with your system's currently assigned DNS servers by automatically comparing their performance with many well known publicly available alternatives. But they might be in the wrong order (the second one being faster than the first one, and that matters) or, who knows? Many people have discovered that their own ISP's DNS servers are slower than other publicly available alternatives on the Internet, which are faster and/or more reliable. Since they are likely located close to you on the Internet (since they are provided by your own ISP) they may already be the fastest DNS servers available to you.
#NAMEBENCH MANUAL#
Unless you have taken over manual control of the DNS servers your system is using (which, as you'll see, is not difficult to do), your system will be using the DNS servers that were automatically assigned by your Internet connection provider (your ISP). There are also a number of charts and and graphs if you want to drill down into the numbers.Since nothing can happen until IP addresses are known, the use of slow, overloaded or unreliable DNS servers will get in the way, noticeably slowing down virtually all of your use of the Internet. The results open in your web browser, showing you the first, second, and third best DNS options right up top. Depending on the number of test you run (you can set that), it will come back with the results in a few minutes.
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You simply load it up, hit the “Start Benchmark” button and let it do its thing. Once you install it, Namebench couldn’t be easier to use. The program is available for OS X, Windows, and Linux, and the entire thing has been open sourced by Stromberg.
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#NAMEBENCH SOFTWARE#
Thomas Stromberg, a Google engineer based in Belgium, created Namebench, a piece of software to find the fastest DNS server available for you to use.
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But one Googler has taken it upon himself to create an easy tool for testing DNS and recommending what you use with his 20% time.
#NAMEBENCH HOW TO#
The problem is that most Internet users have no idea what a DNS server is, let alone how to configure one, or test how fast it is. When Google launched its own DNS service last month, one of the main stated goals behind the project was speed.