AW: Tools to mesure performance and benchmarking of a DNS

[Petr Špaček]

Tools listed by Klaus below are mostly suitable for authoritative servers.

For resolvers the only tool with sensible methodology I know of is DNS 
Shotgun:
https://dns-shotgun.readthedocs.io/


When you select a tool, make sure you drill down into it's load 
generator model and judge it's impact on your benchmark. For details see
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/nsdi06/tech/full_papers/schroeder/schroeder.pdf

Good luck with benchmarking!
Petr Špaček
Internet Systems Consortium


On 21. 06. 23 23:34, Klaus Darilion via bind-users wrote:
> There are several tools with different features and behavior. I would take alook at dnsperf, kxdpgun and flamethrower
> regards
> 
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>> Betreff: Tools to mesure performance and benchmarking of a DNS
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Please, what is the recommended open source tool to test the performance
>> and benchmarking of a DNS server i.e. capture packets and then send them
>> to a DNS server to measure response time, latency, cache usage etc.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Sami