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February 4, 2010
Two good programs have recently been introduced that use your internet connection to find the fastest DNS provider near you. One program (created by Google) is called namebench, and the other is DNS Benchmark by GRC. I’ve used both programs, and not surprisingly they both worked well and both reported the same results. Both are easy to use – download, install, and open the program. Both run in the background until they finish (which can take awhile on a slow connection) and both have a results page when they are done.
Personally I like Google’s namebench interface better – I find it less complex and easier to use, and, it keeps a running tally of how many servers it has tested and how many are left to test.
GRC’s DNS Benchmark shines with the sheer amount of data it generates and what you can do with it, such as being able to sort the data by Fastest Connection, by name, by owner, status and response time.
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