DNS Benchmark as a Windows service idea

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PeterUK

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Oct 30, 2024
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Hi Steve

So I see in the table free, plus and pro what your going to do with DNS Benchmark the two I'm looking at are “Can run as a Windows service” and “AUTO configure fastest DNS” and hope I can manually set what DNS to use but was thinking you be setting the DNS to the NIC directly but was thinking could you run as a service 127.0.0.1 have NIC to that then forward set DNS out DNS Benchmark? It wouldn't need to do caching (but I guess it could) but say I had a bind resolve

My main PC
NIC1 WAN internet
NIC2 192.168.255.55/28
NIC3 192.168.53.30/27

and DNS Benchmark forwarders set with
192.168.255.49
192.168.255.60
192.168.53.14
192.168.53.26
192.168.53.17

When a query comes in instead of trying DNS one by one it tries them all which would work for extremal DNS IP too for the fastest reply
 
Hi @PeterUK:

At this still-early stage, that feature, listed as a line-item, is mostly aspirational. It's something that has been often requested for the Benchmark through the years. Regardless of how it worked exactly, it would always be optional. So for “fancy” systems like yours, where you would not want the benchmark to "mess things up", you would probably leave that option disabled and make your own decisions and determinations manually, advised by the Benchmark's results.

But for most people, the benchmark could (optionally) be enabled to select the 'n' fastest nameservers discovered, which it would then configure for use by their local system using Windows built-in management instrumentation.

But at no point do I have any plan for the Benchmark to take an active role in processing on-the-fly DNS queries and replies. That's WAY outside of scope and not something "for the masses."