Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience?
Try out NAMEinator. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. NAMEinator runs a fair and thorough benchmark using standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. NAMEinator is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google.
NAMEinator runs on Windows (10), Linux (tested on Ubuntu 16.04) and is available with a a command-line interface and in the near future with a graphical user interface.
This project has been forked from google/namebench. While it seems that the initial Author wanted to move the application towards GO with another application use - I just wanted to continue and maintain the python variant as it did what it should. After investigation the python code showed up some very frustrating complications, which were leading to my decision to reimplement the initial application idea - also in GO.
prerequisite: the system running this software must have the tool "nslookup" installed. windows users are fine :)
or
go get github.com/mrwiora/NAMEinator
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mrwiora/NAMEinator/
go build
./NAMEinator
$ ./NAMEinator.exe -h
Usage of C:\Users\Administrator\go\src\NAMEinator\NAMEinator.exe:
-contest=false
enable or disable a contest against your locally configured DNS server (default true)
-debug=true
enable or disable debugging (default false)
-domains int
number of domains to be tested (default 100)
-nameserver string
specify a nameserver instead of using defaults
$ ./NAMEinator.exe
starting NAMEinator - version 0.2 alpha
understood the following configuration: {numberOfDomains:100 debug:false contest:true nameserver:}
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NOTE: as this is an alpha - we rely on feedback - please report bugs and featurerequests to https://github.com/mrwiora/NAMEinator/issues and provide this output
OS: windows ARCH: amd64
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trying to load nameservers from datasrc/nameserver-globals.csv
trying to load domains from datasrc/alexa-top-2000-domains.txt
LETS GO - each dot is a completed domain request against all nameservers
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finished - presenting results:
172.31.0.2:
Avg. [60.109104ms], Min. [313.4µs], Max. [899.4558ms]
8.8.8.8:
Avg. [46.839882ms], Min. [266.8µs], Max. [1.3698924s]
8.8.4.4:
Avg. [38.543425ms], Min. [409.2µs], Max. [555.3005ms]
208.67.222.222:
Avg. [48.621088ms], Min. [217.6µs], Max. [614.7506ms]
2001:470:20::2:
Avg. [82.29074ms], Min. [280.1µs], Max. [1.7591384s]
156.154.71.1:
Avg. [56.059446ms], Min. [269.4µs], Max. [1.2002193s]
216.146.35.35:
Avg. [93.600686ms], Min. [441.6µs], Max. [664.3157ms]
Au revoir!
basics
nice2have
to subsitute namebench 1.3.1
reimplement functions that were planned, but did not work with namebench 1.3.1
new features