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

I am sure Eric Wassenaar's host (ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/dns/host.tar.Z)
can be easily adapted to that if it does not do it alreeady.

daniel

On 04.08 13:46, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 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?
> 
>