Can anyone tell me a good DNS server testing program

[King, Harold Clyde (Hal)]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I’ll go forward with dnsperf.


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On 6/22/16, 08:58, "Warren Kumari" <warren at kumari.net> wrote:

Kinda depends on what you are testing, but there is also Nominum's
dnsperf: http://nominum.com/measurement-tools/

This is easy to install, simple to use, and comes with a sample query file.
W

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Emil Natan <shlyoko at gmail.com> wrote:
> queryperf, supplied with BIND, found under contrib.
> What we usually do is "record" some real traffic, then run queryperf on
> multiple machines against a server. If I'm not mistaken similar topic was
> discussed here recently so you can search the archives.
>
> Emil
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 3:34 PM, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) <hck at utk.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> I have a new DNS BIND setup that I need to stress test. There are many
>> test for hitting a web server to simulate traffic, but I can’t find a one
>> for doing the same thing to a DNS server. Does anyone have any
>> recommendations?
>>
>>
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