http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ Seems like it may be fun to play with
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > I've put monitoring onto my public website, and by far the largest component > of the response time it gives me is the DNS lookup -- 4-500ms, which seems > entirely unreasonable. > > Is there a tool that anyone knows about that will measure the response time > of my zone servers, somewhere on the web? > > Is the sum of the times in a dig +trace the proper metric to look at there? > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > [email protected] > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 > -- Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc....

