Wireshark and a couple of the Sysinternals tools.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > No Mikrotik routers between your PC and the Internet? > > Task Manager or Performance Manager will also tell you what IP or maybe > FQDN the content is coming from as well. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"That One Guy" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > *To: *af@afmug.com > *Sent: *Monday, March 23, 2015 11:43:50 AM > > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] testing DNS server performance > > used the wrong term > Ignore the term > Take cache out of thyne mouth > > now, being a windows dick, I dont have torch > > I want to simply be able to verify that appropriate CDNs are being utilized > > namebench is still running, I dont know what its output is going to be > > This cant be a new thing, I see threads occasionally about content being > problematic in that users are getting less than desirable CDNs, it always > seems to boil down to DNS, > > I just want a tool that will tell me where the content is coming from. (in > a perfect world, it would display on a map with a quality indicator to that > CDN, I dont have any expectation that that component of the tool would > exist) > > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > >> Not generic. You have to use the one they provide. And they will not >> give to you unless you are doing some like 4tB per month. >> >> *From:* Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> >> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2015 10:33 AM >> *To:* af@afmug.com >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] testing DNS server performance >> >> I was not aware you could cache Netflix streams with a generic caching >> server. Not only due to DRM, but also Netflix app switches streams >> dynamically to match video quality to connection speed. Plus first the >> customer authenticates to Netflix server, chooses what content to watch, >> etc. >> >> >> *From:* Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> >> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2015 11:23 AM >> *To:* af@afmug.com >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] testing DNS server performance >> >> Say a new movie is on Netflix. Or latest season of cards. Everyone >> is going to want to watch it. So 1000 simultaneous backbone streams to >> Netflix vs 1000 simultaneous streams to the caching server in your NOC. I >> choose the latter. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> >> *To: *af@afmug.com >> *Sent: *Monday, March 23, 2015 11:08:27 AM >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] testing DNS server performance >> >> I don’t understand how the caching server is going to help with CDNs. >> Actually, with so much Internet content now being either dynamic HTML or >> streaming, I wouldn’t think caching would be worth it, unless you are >> talking about something like a Netflix OpenConnect appliance. Maybe you >> can cache software updates, I’m not sure about that. >> >> >> *From:* That One Guy <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2015 10:35 AM >> *To:* af@afmug.com >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] testing DNS server performance >> >> Geographically close CDNs. I want to make sure we are getting content >> from Illinoisish rather than california for netflix, since all that matters >> is netflix >> >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Josh Baird <joshba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> For performance, look at queryperf which I think is provided by >>> ISC/bind. >>> >>> I'm not sure what you mean by "we are getting good CDNs and the like," >>> though. >>> >>> Josh >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:27 AM, That One Guy < >>> thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Im bringing live our first caching server today. Is there a good tool >>>> for comparing queries between DNS servers. >>>> Im not all that concerned about speed since we are so small there wont >>>> be a huge amount of benefit I would think. Im primarily wanting to make >>>> sure we are getting good CDNs and the like >>>> >>>> -- >>>> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your >>>> team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your >> team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >> >> > > > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. > >
