Re: DNS zone response speed test tool?

[chip <chip.gwyn () gmail com>]

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 component
> of the response time it gives me is the DNS lookup -- 4-500ms, which seems
> entirely unreasonable.
>
> Is there a tool that anyone knows about that will measure the response time
> of my zone servers, somewhere on the web?
>
> Is the sum of the times in a dig +trace the proper metric to look at there?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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