Kevin P. Grelling cried from the depths of the abyss... > I use a free DNS benchmarking piece of software to actually test my DNS fallback servers. Out of the box, this tool > can measure the raw performance of a whole variety of publicly available DNS servers as they perform ON YOUR NETWORK. > This means that if you have a slow route to OpenDNS, but a fast one to google for network topology reasons, this tool > will show that. > > It is really worth a look for anyone wanting to speed up their DNS performance. If you run your own DNS server > with forwarding, make sure you compare the *non-cached* performance parameters (your local DNS should win hands down > for any cached requests) > > On a LUG, it is probably bad form to recommend a MS windows utility, but flame away, this tool performs a useful task: > > http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm > Nice. Thanks for the link. This will help a lot! B-o-B