How do you locate the fastest DNS server available to you? Even though most
netizens use the fast Open DNS server, you might not be sure if you are availing
the maximum speed. NameBench is a free software, compatible with
Windows/Mac/Linux, that hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your
computer to use, so that you can experience faster Internet browsing. It
actually benchmarks your DNS servers by taking factors like web browser history
and standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation
and tcpdump output. It scans your configured DNS servers and additional servers
and finds the best network connection. NameBench is available with a graphical
user interface as well as a command-line interface.
This software automatically detects the DNS servers. You have the option to
change the Data Source i.e you can change the Web browser in which it shows the
result, etc.
We benchmarked our DNS servers using all the default settings. It checked,
among its default 200 tests, all the healthy servers and run a series of tests
to give proper results. The result showed DNS servers compared against 10
different servers.
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NameBench also gives the result in the form of graphs and charts that show
mean response duration, fastest individual response duration, etc.
After extracting the NameBench files, it automatically detects the DNS servers. This screenshot shows the best DNS server. |
10 different DNS servers compared against each other by NameBench. It also shows the Primary DNS server, which is 'mantraonline' in this case. |
This shows the different graphs & charts comparing different DNS severs and the mean response, individual fastest response durations, etc. |