This archive is retained to ensure existing URLs remain functional. It will not contain any emails sent to this mailing list after July 1, 2024. For all messages, including those sent before and after this date, please visit the new location of the archive at https://mailman.ripe.net/archives/list/dns-wg@ripe.net/

[dns-wg] Looking for a tool to find the fastest DNS server

Next message (by thread): [dns-wg] Looking for a tool to find the fastest DNS server

Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Mon Aug 4 13:46:15 CEST 2003

I'm looking for a small tool (running on Unix) that can take a list of
DNS servers, a query to ask (such as "A ns1.nic.fr.") and which can
print the fastest server to reply.

Something like "netselect" which only exercices the kernel, not the
actual servers, unfortunately (and which can be blocked by filters):

~ % netselect  {a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m}.root-servers.net  
  123 i.root-servers.net

BIND9's lib/dns/resolver.c has code to do so and I wonder if someone
extracted it in a simple tool?

Next message (by thread): [dns-wg] Looking for a tool to find the fastest DNS server

Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

[ dns-wg Archives ]