Sunday, June 6, 2010

What is your DNS speed?

I just tried the open-source DNS benchmark utility namebench. Here is the impressing result:

Google Public DNS-2 is

76.4%

Faster

than your current primary DNS server


Here is a graph of the mean response duration:




The full result is at http://namebench.appspot.com/id/424004. The question is: are you willing to give all your DNS queries to Google for an average of 67 ms speedup for each DNS query? Can you even feel the difference in speed?

1 comment:

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