NAMEBENCH [Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility]

Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience?

Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way.

namebench was written using open-source tools and libraries such as Python, Tkinter, PyObjC, dnspython, jinja2 and graphy.

Screenshots

Here is what the nameserver overview looks like:

Here are what some of the graphs produced look like:

FOR NAMEBENCH WINDOWS : DOWNLOAD  Size : 5 MB

FOR NAMEBENCH MAC OS : DOWNLOAD Size : 1 MB


How to Setup DNS on your Computer