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As a System Administrator at Google, I was curious about measuring how BGP route selection affected the performance of Google Public DNS. namebench benchmarks available DNS services and provides a personalized comparison to show you which name servers perform the best.

namebench is a new open source tool that helps to take the guess-work out of the DNS server selection process. The issue is that Namebench doesn't show the results in the browser, but the results are stored in the hard drive, to resolve this issue, you will need open Namebench from the Terminal with this command: /Applications/namebench.Slow DNS servers can make for a terrible web browsing experience, but knowing which one to use isn't easy.

NAMEBENCH FOR MAC MAC OS

Namebench has problems with Mac OS 10.13.3, High Sierra #8.

Number of Queries: is the number of queries that are sent to each DNS, the default value is 250.

Query Data Source: You can select the source of data (history of websites in your browser) that Namebench will use for the test if you have Firefox and Google Chrome it will appear in the list, if you select the one with more sources it will take more time.

Health Check Performance: leave the option in Fast it will test more servers at a time you can change it to slow if you have an unstable connection.

Your Location: if you want to test a different location you can change it if is available.

The new checkbox is optional: Best available regional DNS services it will test no popular DNS in your area, for example, your ISP. You can include extra DNS servers with a comma and space in the first option, I just change it for the CloudFlare DNS 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1 because it is a new service, it is not included in the popular provider list.Ĭheck the option: Include global DNS providers. because the results will be not accurate.

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There are few options in the interface, you can just click on the Start button and the test will start, is highly recommended to keep a low usage of Internet, do not add load to the network like YouTube videos, Netflix, download files, etc.

NAMEBENCH FOR MAC INSTALL

You can download the installer in the website:įor MacOS you need to move the namebench.app to the Application folder or you can install it using homebrew: brew cask install -appdir="/Applications" namebench For this small tutorial, I am going to use a tool called NameBench, because it is easy to use, easy to install and also is multiplatform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. There are many tools that you can use to test which DNS is better for you, the results depend of your location. How I know which DNS is faster than the others? There are a lot of DNS, but the most popular are maybe these:īefore to continue is important to say that they can come with different features for example Google and CloudFlare the content is private and unfiltered but OpenDNS blocks malicious domains and it has the option to block adult content. A DNS is a Networking service that converts IP addresses to domain names, for example, if you enter this IP address in your browser it redirects to you don't have to remember the ip to enter to google because it is the job of the DNS.īy default the devices (router/modems) are configured to work with the Internet Provider Servers, no all servers have the same speed to convert IPs to domain names, so it could increase a little the load of the websites, it also can increase or decrease your ping, if you are a gamer this is very important. I will explain very quickly what is a Domain Name System (DNS) before to start with this tutorial.