Run on headless raspberry pi?

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bohemus

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Is anyone running DNS Benchmark on a headless raspberry pi? I have a few of these around the house connected via ethernet to the internet and it would be great to be able to use the commandline to run benchmarks, especially while remoted in to a pi.
 
DNS Benchmark is a Windows application. It requires x86 Windows to run.

Raspberry Pi's that run Windows run an ARM version of Windows. GRC products do not support ARM. So DNS Benchmark would will not run on a Raspberry Pi.
 
If running Linux or a BSD there are three DNS benchmarking tools available. dnsblast, flamethrower, and DNSPerf. I'm not sure which Linux distros might have packages for them, you may need to ./configure and build one yourself. But as a FreeBSD user, myself, packages do exist.

I haven't tried any, I've set up a split DNS here, using my internal DNS for resolution and external DNS to allow others to find me.