Benchmarking and stats analysis reports for root servers.

[Maren S. Leizaola]

Hi,
	I am currently looking at capacity planning for bind and I would
like to know if there is any benchmarking utilities to be able to rate
name servers.  I would like to know how many lookups per second or minute
a server can handle before they reach saturation point. Are there any
tools out there to simulate the traffic and measure the response of a
server. I know that performance will be variable depending on the config,
but getting a number (x) of lookups per second answering under n ms under
recursive and non recursive configurations would be great.

	I recently read that there is some work being done on analizing
the stats of the root servers. Can someone provide me any pointers to see
what reports/work is being done.

Regards,
Maren.

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