DNS zone response speed test tool?

2011-12-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
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

Re: DNS zone response speed test tool?

2011-12-20 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:10:08AM -0500, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote a message of 16 lines which said: Is there a tool that anyone knows about that will measure the response time of my zone servers, somewhere on the web? Yes, it is called Nanog. For baylink.com ? Only one real

Re: DNS zone response speed test tool?

2011-12-20 Thread chip
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 j...@baylink.com 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,

Re: DNS zone response speed test tool?

2011-12-20 Thread Todd Lyons
Doesn't do much for long term graphing and monitoring, but for quickie issue detection or verification, http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm ...Todd On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:00 AM, chip chip.g...@gmail.com wrote: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/  Seems like it may be fun to play with

Re: DNS zone response speed test tool?

2011-12-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Todd Lyons tly...@ivenue.com Doesn't do much for long term graphing and monitoring, but for quickie issue detection or verification, http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm Am I mistaken in thinking that's a tool for measuring the efficiency and accessibility

Re: DNS zone response speed test tool?

2011-12-20 Thread Todd Lyons
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Doesn't do much for long term graphing and monitoring, but for quickie issue detection or verification, http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm Am I mistaken in thinking that's a tool for measuring the efficiency and