query time rounding-off in DIG with win2k

[Barry Margolin]

In article <abq2ib$sah$1 at isrv4.isc.org>, Danny Mayer  <mayer at gis.net> wrote:
>
>At 08:28 AM 5/13/02, Ville wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>I need to compare the reply times I get from different DNS servers,
>>but DIG.exe for win2k rounds off the query time to 0 milliseconds,
>>1000 milliseconds, 2000 milliseconds and so on. How can I get accurate
>>query times, is there a bug in the DIG.exe?
>
>No.  Dig from BIND 8 can only be accurate to microseconds due to the way
>that the system time is retrieved. In BIND 9 it does a better job and gets
>the system time in milliseconds.

I think you're confusing milli and micro -- micro is smaller than milli.
And in any case, the above messages are only accurate to whole seconds.
Windows may suck, but I find it difficult to believe that BIND 8 can't get
any fractions of a second.

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