DNS benchmarking

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:00 PM -0800 3/27/01, Jean-Christophe Smith wrote:

>  Does anybody have some suggestions, or tools for benchmarking the
>  performance of a DNS configuration I have? I want to be able to measure
>  maximum A record, MX lookups per second, latency, load, etc...

	Check the archives, and look for referrals to performance 
benchmarking papers by Rick Jones from HP, and then look at the tools 
he has used.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

/*        efdtt.c  Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>          */
/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
/*                                                                      */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob        */
/*   where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key    */

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