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Re: Is it possiable to find the fastest ones of dns servers from a huge number of them fastly?

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: Is it possiable to find the fastest ones of dns servers from a huge number of them fastly?
Date 2016-03-02 13:56 +0100
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On 2016-03-02 13:19, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-01, Hongyi Zhao wrote:


> A first approximation could be to write a simple shell script to ping them
> all a few times, and sort the list on RTT.
> 
>    % ping -qc5 localhost
>    PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 
>    --- localhost ping statistics ---
>    5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3998ms
>    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.084/0.129/0.226/0.051 ms
> 
> Please don't be rude by pinging them too much, though.

Or, he could use "time host somewhere server" to check the time they
take to respond to a DNS question. Do a query of, say, five addresses,
and record the results. Script it to query as many servers as wanted.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Is it possiable to find the fastest ones of dns servers from a huge number of them fastly? Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 11:31 +0000
  Re: Is it possiable to find the fastest ones of dns servers from a huge number of them fastly? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2016-03-02 12:19 +0000
    Re: Is it possiable to find the fastest ones of dns servers from a huge number of them fastly? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-03-02 13:56 +0100
      Re: Is it possiable to find the fastest ones of dns servers from a huge number of them fastly? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2016-03-02 18:25 +0000
    Re: Is it possiable to find the fastest ones of dns servers from a huge number of them fastly? Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com> - 2016-03-03 00:09 +0000

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