Comments on: Benchmarking DNS servers

By: John Scars

John Scars — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:56:48 +0000

cool! thanks a lot for that post, it's very useful for me

By: paulscott56

paulscott56 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:20:46 +0000

Here in South Africa, this tool could do us very well! I have just ran the initial tests from my home ADSL, with some somewhat surprising results from the 2nd best and lower resultset.

My ISP maintained DNS won outright, but 2nd place and 3rd place both went to competing ISP's that I always thought were way behind the game here. Turns out that in my area if I moved to one of the WiMAX providers, I would actually see a better browsing experience overall! Thanks for the wakeup Namebench! (v1.1).

The cool thing about this is that in Africa, we are always looking for the slightest improvement on anything, so this has the potential to make a big difference!

Oh, BTW, OpenDNS and Google DNS featured waaaaaay down the list here (just in case you were concerned that there may be a bug as all reports I have seen so far feature these two)

Thanks for the great work!

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:54:37 +0000

@pdjk: I also noticed significant improvement with opendns, but it annoys me more and more each day just how much it meddles with your results and suggests rather than just trying what you entered.

By: pdjk

pdjk — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:39:54 +0000

Thanks a ton for this. I have been looking for a better dns test for a while.
“In this test, OpenDNS is 194.8% faster than your current primary DNS server”

Well worth the 20 minutes.