Installation is not a prerequisite the program is immediately initialized with one click, necessary for extracting the package. On a terminal write gksudo gedit /etc/resolv.Namebench is an easy-to-use program that permits users to run benchmarks on DNS servers, in order to find the fastest ones available to your computer. Now that you know which DNS server to use you just need to change 1 file. On the left you can see an estimation of how much you can gain in using the DNS server listed on the right side. Once you have selected your options just click on Start Benchmark and wait, it took around 10 minutes on my computer to run all the the tests.Īt the end you’ll have a page with all the results and some nice graphs, but now you are interested at the information at the top: In Query Data Source you can choose where to take the DNS names to be tested, from your browser history, Top 2000 Alexa sites or do other latency tests. Under Nameservers there are your current DNS server taken from your configuration file. Write in a terminal: namebench and the main (and only) windows will appears: Or if you prefer from the Ubuntu Software center Basic usage The following NEW packages will be installed:īlt Ġ packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. On Ubuntu 11.04 this package it’s available, so you can install it with these commands: The source are available on the official site, as wrote this is a python program so you should be able to run it from the command line without any additional package, if you want also the GUI you need also the package python-tk, this is usually available in all the main repositories of the principal distributions. Namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface. The project began as a 20% project at Google. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. Namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets (top 2000 Alexa) in order to provide an individualized recommendation. Namebench it’s a small program wrote in python that search for the fastest DNS server near to you. In a former article (1 year ago) i used a java tool to see which DNS was faster among Google, OpenDNS and my local ISP, and the winner it’s been my local ISP but I’ve recently discovered another nice tool that can do these tests, so today I want to re-check these 3 DNS servers with namebench

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