How do I stress test my newly setup DNS BIND server?

[Samad Agha]

I'm new to setting up DNS servers, I used Webmin to set it up, and now need to test all different functionalities of it before registering it (basically a stress test). Can someone show me some cool commands to do this? Thanks in advance.

Samad Agha

[Samad Agha]

[Baird, Josh]

Check out the "queryperf" tool.

Thanks,

 

Josh

[Samad Agha]

Thanks guys; how about something to check for any possible errors that might be generating?

Samad

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Tom Daly <t...@dyn.com> wrote:

Samad,

It depends on how you want to test. Are you looking to test DNS query performance (if so, try dnsperf from Nominum), and if you just want to test the box itself for malformed query handling / TCP/UDP stack performance try using tcpreplay + PCAPs captured from the world.

Tom

> I'm new to setting up DNS servers, I used Webmin to set it up, and now
> need to test all different functionalities of it before registering it
> (basically a stress test). Can someone show me some cool commands to
> do this? Thanks in advance.
>
> Samad Agha

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[Gary Gladney]

Infoblox has a nice test that you can run against your primary nameserver.  You run the test from their site so you can check to see if you cache is viewable from external DNS queries and things like that.  To run the is free and it does not check the performance on the configuration. 

 

Gary

[Chiesa Stefano]

Hello Samad.
There are two other tools you can review:

http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Have a nice day.

Stefano.

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Inviato: giovedì 19 agosto 2010 19.35
A: Tom Daly
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Oggetto: Re: How do I stress test my newly setup DNS BIND server?

[Chiesa Stefano]

Sorry...
And this one too:

http://www.txdns.net/
TXDNS is a Win32 aggressive multithreaded DNS digger. Capable of placing, on the wire, thousands of DNS queries per minute.

Ciao.

[Minh Son]

you can use Dnsperf of Nominum INC. It's a nice and simple tool.

----- Original Message -----

From: Gary Gladney

To: 'Samad Agha'

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Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 12:42 AM

Subject: RE: How do I stress test my newly setup DNS BIND server?

Infoblox has a nice test that you can run against your primary nameserver.  You run the test from their site so you can check to see if you cache is viewable from external DNS queries and things like that.  To run the is free and it does not check the performance on the configuration. 

 

Gary

 

From: bind-users-bounces+gladney=stsc...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+gladney=stsc...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Samad Agha

Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:35 PM
To: Tom Daly
Cc: bind-...@lists.isc.org

Subject: Re: How do I stress test my newly setup DNS BIND server?

 

Thanks guys; how about something to check for any possible errors that might be generating?

Samad

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Tom Daly <t...@dyn.com> wrote:

Samad,

It depends on how you want to test. Are you looking to test DNS query performance (if so, try dnsperf from Nominum), and if you just want to test the box itself for malformed query handling / TCP/UDP stack performance try using tcpreplay + PCAPs captured from the world.

Tom

> I'm new to setting up DNS servers, I used Webmin to set it up, and now
> need to test all different functionalities of it before registering it
> (basically a stress test). Can someone show me some cool commands to
> do this? Thanks in advance.
>
> Samad Agha

> _______________________________________________
> bind-users mailing list

> bind-...@lists.isc.org

> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

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Tom Daly
CTO, Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://dyn.com/