In the past we covered an article about Top three Free DNSservices. As I said in the article you can try Public DNS servers if your local
internet service provider doesn't have a fastest DNS server. But the speed will
vary depends on your geographic location. So you might think now how to check
which one is the best.
Today I would like to share a Free tool Namebench, which
will compare your local DNS server with others and help you to find a faster
one. In order to provide an individualized recommendation, this tool runs a
fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcp dump output, or
standardized data sets.
1. Download Namebench and execute. Then click on Start Benck Mark
2. It may take 10-15 minutes and you can see the queries it’s
running through at the botom left side of the tool
3. Once it done, it will show you what DNS server is fastest
for your system based on the report it generate
You can export the results and compare the DNS queries to
check how fast your current DNS server is.
Note: It is an open source project that is in continuing
development, so results may not be perfect. But it is a free utility which help
you to find out the fastest DNS server for you.