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[Amrit Panesar <apanesar AT 4195tech.com>]

I believe what Niels was saying is that a fast DNS not only reply to pings quickly, but also responds to DNS queries quickly.
In many cases it is true to have a fast ping but a slower DNS query return time.
However, a faster ping on a DNS server generally means a faster return time on your DNS query.

Point being, a ping does the job of finding the closer DNS server, but of the (for instance top 5) closest servers you should do a dig to find the fastest response times.
I am currently implementing this idea in my OpenNIC windows app.

On 2/20/2012 12:48 PM, Hospedaje Web y Servidores Dedicados wrote:
> yeah, but you can use this =)
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> El 20/02/2012 02:32 p.m., Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet) escribió:

Hospedaje Web y Servidores Dedicados<ventas AT dedicados.com.mx>  schrieb:

>>> it also can ping the dns servers to see wich one is faster for you =)
no, this just tells you how "fast" the SNMP implementation of a specific host does answering your requests ;)

Benchmarking a DNS is a little bit. more tricky...


cheers,


Niels.

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