Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-19 Thread Zayed Mahmud
Hello! This is my first message to NANOG's mailing list. I hope someone can help me. I was wondering which tool(s) can I use to measure the performance of my 3 DNS servers (1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 solely cacheDNS)? From the stats I would like to know if my DNS server is serving as it should be o

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-19 Thread Christopher Morrow
http://docs.cacti.net/usertemplate%3ahost%3abind9.7 http://forums.cacti.net/about6332.html those are like result 1 and 5 of "cacti graph dns server" in the googles... (the second is even the 1st result in a bingz search) On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Zayed Mahmud wrote: > Hello! > This is my

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-20 Thread Andrew Smith
Smokeping (http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/) can graph DNS response latency via dig. ThousandEyes (https://www.thousandeyes.com/) has some commercial options for monitoring DNS server responsiveness, and zone performance from different vantage points throughout the globe. On Tue, May 19, 2015 a

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-20 Thread Denis Fondras
> I was wondering which tool(s) can I use to measure the performance of my 3 > DNS servers (1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 solely cacheDNS)? From the stats I > would like to know if my DNS server is serving as it should be or if any of > it's options are set inappropriately and others alike. Perhaps ht

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-21 Thread Zayed Mahmud
Thanks a lot to Denis Fondras, Zachary, Andrew Smith, Christopher Morrow for your valuable advice. I've tried cacti but failed to get desired logs. i've also tried bind graph...but it consumes too much memory in the long run. can u suggest some suitable tools that i can measure the performance of

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-21 Thread Joe Abley
Hi Zayed, I think you're more likely to get good answers to your BIND-specific questions on the bind-users mailing list. See: https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users BIND9 has the capability to produce a vast variety and volume of logs, and dealing with logs in general is somethi

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-21 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
" (Use powerdns instead of bind, powerdns has stats built in). Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom - Original Message - > From: "Zayed Mahmud" > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 7:15:41 AM > Subject: Re: Measuring DNS Pe

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-21 Thread charles
On 2015-05-21 06:15, Zayed Mahmud wrote: I've tried cacti but failed to get desired logs. i've also tried bind graph...but it consumes too much memory in the long run. How constrained are your servers? What is "too much memory"? What logs are you looking for? Have you tried looking at the s

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-21 Thread Jared Mauch
> 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 h

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-08-08 Thread Alejandro Acosta
Hello Zayed, I noticed you have already received some answers regarding how to integrate it to Cacti. Regarding the tools to measure DNS performance I usually use two: resperf and dnsperf, both are from Nominum and can be found here: https://nominum.com/measurement-tools/ Some years ago I pos

RE: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-08-09 Thread Dustin Jurman
Performance & Graphing Logs Hello Zayed, I noticed you have already received some answers regarding how to integrate it to Cacti. Regarding the tools to measure DNS performance I usually use two: resperf and dnsperf, both are from Nominum and can be found here: https://nominum.com/measurement-t

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-08-10 Thread Fakrul Alam Pappu
son. > > https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm > > Dustin > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Acosta > Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 4:25 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Measuring DNS Performance &