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On Chrismas Eve, I published the 3rd development test release of DNSB. This release incorporates the significant re-engineering of the application that was required before it would be able to support anything other than 32-bit IPv4 addressing. So, although this is now “only” supporting the additional IPv6 protocol, the new framework has rewritten to support secure TLS-style DNS queries in addition to anything else that might come along in the future.

So for now, it performs side-by-side benchmarking of DNS nameservers addressed using either IPv4 or IPv6.

During the work on this, I decided to add a new sorting/ranking system using the RMS value (root mean square) of the Benchmark's three performance metrics (cached, uncached & dot com) rather than the straight three-level sort that has always been used. That new sort will be implemented next while the bugs and things I missed in R3 are found.

Once those are fixed I plan to start on the implementation of the three TLS-style secure DNS queries: DoH, DoT & DoQ.

During this re-engineering work I also realized how I could dramatically improve the performance of the benchmarking and custom resolver list building. So that will be a future feature as well.
 
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