Custom local domains list loading

[Tsiikki]

Hi!

I have been using GRC freeware tools for +20 years (time when Windows exposed ports 137-139 open to internet ) and now bought this DNSB 2, nice tool.
I'm asking do I have to launch it always with "DNSBench.exe /domains domains.ini" or does list load it automatically? I attached list for anyone from Finland or near Scandinavia

Performance: I'm horrified with eero Max 7 DNS performance! It is meant for 10Gb internet and I have 8Gb/8Gb, I enabled local caching for it and its super slow vs almost every server!! Much slower than my old Asus AC88U, wow. I'm going to test & post results here if anyone is interested..

Test coming later:
1. With local caching
2. Without it
3. With build in AD&Malware blocking (It hijacks normal UDP DNS)

Edit: feature request load file if domains.ini is there, or if using /domains domains.ini, tell the user "custom list loaded with <number> domains".

 

[peterblaise]

In DNSBnech 2, default "Domains" queries are, from

https://www.grc.com/dns/resources.htm

Google.com Yahoo.com Youtube.com Live.com Facebook.com Msn.com Wikipedia.org Blogger.com Myspace.com Yahoo.co.jp

Baidu.com Google.co.in Google.de Microsoft.com Rapidshare.com Google.fr Ebay.com Google.co.uk Wordpress.com Craigslist.org

Aol.com Google.it Flickr.com Amazon.com Google.co.jp Photobucket.com Imdb.com Bbc.co.uk Go.com Skyrock.com

Ask.com Friendster.com Cnn.com Naver.com Youku.com Google.ca Adobe.com Ebay.de Dailymotion.com Conduit.com

Sohu.com Vmn.net Apple.com Globo.com About.com Tagged.com Mediafire.com Ku6.com Soso.com Livejournal.com

Yes, we can swap in our own using the
DNSBENCH.EXE /domains <ini-file>
command line to load the program.

Perhaps we know our most frequent and on-demand domains and
want DNSBench Benchmark to match our habits.

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Yes, please share your complete test results, we love looking over
each other's shoulders.

PS - I'm researching [ https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+eero? ]

 

[DanR]

I'm asking do I have to launch it always with "DNSBench.exe /domains domains.ini" or does list load it automatically?

I assume you purchased Release 4?

Have you tried launching it just as "DNSBench.exe" ? If that does not load domains.ini automatically, then you must do this;

Launch DNSBench as you normally do with domains.ini in the command line.

With DNSBench idle, do the following:

Click the red icon/button in the UL corner

Note the 4th and 5th items from the top of the drop down menu list. Click either one of them!

Item 4 will save the DNS server list to DNSBench.ini - the default name.

Item 5 will save the DNS resolver list to an INI file with a name of your choosing, e.g. domains.ini

Exit DNSBench and relaunch it just as "DNSBench.exe"

It will automatically load whichever file you saved as. You do have to do the save one time for the auto load to work.

Note: If you made any changes to the DNS server list that you wish to save, do this before exiting DNSBench. DNSBench will prompt you for this. You may exit without saving any changes if you wish.

 

[peterblaise]

"... launching ... "DNSBench.exe ... load domains.ini automatically ..."

Let's get precise.

The 'domains' that DNSBench uses are in-built, and we get no
confirmation in the program what domains will be used to query DNS
servers.

Example command line:

DNSBENCH.EXE /DOMAINS DOMAINS.INI​

... which is for us to replace the in-built domains with whatever we put
in that file.

According to: https://www.grc.com/dns/resources.htm

A DOMAINS.INI file is NOT a list of DNS servers as might be saved
from the list in the Names tab.

Function:

DOMAINS.INI = our own file to replace in-built list to be used to​

query DNS servers,​

​

DNSBENCH.INI = DNS servers to be queried using a list of​

DOMAINS, either in-built, or our own concocted list loaded with​

the /domains filename.ext command line.​

Example:

DOMANIN.INI​

amazon.com​

wikipedia.com​

google.com​

​

DNSBENCH.INI​

1.1.1.1​

1.0.0.1​

8.8.8.8​

​

DNSBENCH.EXE /DOMAINS DOMAINS.INI​

During a Benchmark, DNSBench will query the DNS servers in
DNSBENCH.INI using the 'search' terms in the DOMAINS.INI file.

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So, "... do I have to launch it always with "DNSBench.exe /domains domains.ini" or does list load it automatically? ..."

The in-build DOMAINS list loads automatically.

"... I attached list for anyone from Finland or near Scandinavia ..."

That would replace the in-build default list of domains that will be
used during benchmark to query DNS servers.

That list my not be a good match for anyone else, let alone our
nearby neighbor, considering that we each have such different
browsing habits.

Perhaps we could collect the top 50 web browsing destinations
from our own browsing history and make our own personal
DOAMINS.INI file.

But even our browser history does not reflect the complexity of
modern web pages, where content might come from a variety of
resources from other domains.

Ctrl Shift I in a browser opens up Sources, and even
forms.grc.com has more than one domain contributing to what
we see in the address bar:

A google search page for me has 2 or 3 at least ( I use the Honey
extension ):

Even Google News apparently collects many sites into it's own
resources, then presents them on one web page, so this is NOT a list
of the hundreds of other news sources listed on the page, but mostly
Google already collected, still 'only' 4 domains at the one web page:

MSN.com is a little more complex - 14 domains:

So when DNSBench queries DNS servers using a domains list, the
in-built 50 domains may or may not align with how busy each web
page is underneath the prime domain we visit, and even our own
concocted DOMAINS.INI may require deep study to get it to
correspond not just to our actual use of the web, but also to the
domains we visit that have our browser then call other domains.

I look forward to anyone doing a definitive comparison where they
see a meaningful difference for a reason that we all can learn from
and apply to our own use of DNSBench and our own DOMAINS.INI.

Thanks.