If you want to benchmark nameservers, queryperf is the tool that was designed to do that years ago -- see my presentation at http://shub-internet.org/brad/paper

If you want to benchmark nameservers, queryperf is the tool that was designed to do that years ago -- see my presentation at http://shub-internet.org/brad/papers/dnscomparison/ http://shub-internet.org/brad/papers/dnscomparison/ EDIT1: The folks at SolveDNS.com also have some interesting reports on some of these machines. Among others, see: http://www.solvedns.com/dnsspeedtest/freenom.world http://www.solvedns.com/dnsspeedtest/freenom.world http://www.solvedns.com/dnsspeedtest/freenom.com http://www.solvedns.com/dnsspeedtest/freenom.com http://www.solvedns.com/nameserver/ns01.freenom.com http://www.solvedns.com/nameserver/ns01.freenom.com http://www.solvedns.com/nameserver/ns11.cloudns.net http://www.solvedns.com/nameserver/ns11.cloudns.net EDIT2: And also http://www.solvedns.com/freenom.world http://www.solvedns.com/freenom.world http://www.solvedns.com/freenom.com http://www.solvedns.com/freenom.com EDIT3: And http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/2016/12 http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/2016/12 EDIT4: TurboBytes.com also has an interesting page at http://www.turbobytes.com/reports/dns-performance/#US http://www.turbobytes.com/reports/dns-performance/#US EDIT5: And don't miss the page at http://www.dnsperf.com/ http://www.dnsperf.com/