> On May 21, 2015, at 12:00 PM, char...@thefnf.org wrote: > >> can u suggest some suitable tools that i can measure the performance of the >> dns servers? > > What sort of performance? What metrics are you trying to track? Please > provide more details about exactly what you want. > That will help us give you very specific suggestions. (We provide advice for > free, have very busy schedules, the more specific > you are the better).
At the recent DNS-OARC meeting there was an interesting discussion about a new tool called DNSDIST. It’s part of PowerDNS and there is also a independent tar one can fetch. What is interesting about it is it can report on a lot of data about the performance of your DNS servers. Some people use a load balancer, and this will do that but be application aware and can easily route certain types of queries to another server. (e.g.: arpa requests to dedicated servers, same as domains that may be used/abused). It provides realtime graphs of CPU usage and query rates as well as average response times. You can set query rate limits and it will balance as you specify. This is useful as many people who know/use Linux have seen the issues with UDP kernel performance. If you’re not aware, do this: UDP: iperf -s -u iperf -u -c localhost -b 25000m eg: [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.50 GBytes 3.87 Gbits/sec 0.000 ms 84054/3374408 (2.5%) vs TCP: iperf -s iperf -c localhost [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 56.1 GBytes 48.2 Gbits/sec - Jared
