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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] DNS testing
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:51
Message-Id: loom.20160524T163504-491@post.gmane.org
1 Hello,
2
3 So I've been manually (hap-hazardly) testing a variety of dns servers by
4 just listing them first in /etc/resolv.conf. There seems to be a bit of buzz
5 about
6 OpenDNS and some other dns servers as to speed and security.
7
8 What (automated) tools do we have on gentoo to profile various dns
9 server for speed? Security? Anything else?
10
11 I find myself using CLI and various tools and then the data is
12 not collected over time and averages. Surely there is some automated
13 tools for this? I'd like to get more pro-active on dns testing. Maybe
14 something more robust in nagios? munin?
15
16 Maybe the easiest thing to get something going is to alter mirrorselect? [1]
17 From a workstation with promiscuous ethernet. Eventually, I'd like the code(s)
18 running on a transparent bridge, if anyone has that sort of configuration
19 that you'd be willing to share?
20
21 [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect
22
23
24 curiously,
25 James

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