BEBender·Jun 28, 2026
Clone this repo [1] and then edit the domain names and resolvers to your liking. It will be something close to what you might be looking for.
[1] - https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest
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DNS Performance test
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13 sourcesI don't use the public resolvers but here [1] is a script that will show which of those public resolvers is fastest from your location. Add or remove resolvers as you desire. Be sure to scroll down to see a few of the sorting examples. Not my script or repo.
Just as a side note: Something I have done with this in the past as a fun experiment was to set up an Unbound DoT server on assorted VPS nodes in assorted locations around the country, run this script and configure each Unbound to use the 5 to 10 fastest servers on each node and cache results longer. Then I used Tinc (open source VPN) to connect to these VPS nodes from my home's Unbound and distribute the requests among all of them. I save query logs from all of them and use cron to look up all my queries hourly to keep the cache fresh and mess up any analytic patterns for my qu
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eries. Just a fun experiment. 99.99% of the time I just query the root DNS servers for what NS servers are authoritative for a given domain or what I call bare-backing the internet.
[1] - https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest
Try testing many of the open recursive servers with dnsperftest [1] to see if Quad9 stands out. not my repo
Also run it from other servers/VM's to compare and contrast if you can.
[1] - https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest
In Quad9 9.9.9.9 DNS queries *from Germany* slow todayI found https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest/
to be really user friendy and easy to customize.
Here are results for my custom edited list of domains (first three are popular domains, rest are "long-tail" domains):
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 Average
2001:558:feed::1 18 ms 18 ms 16 ms 30 ms 202 ms 377 ms 90 ms 87 ms 485 ms 147.00
2001:558:feed::2 47 ms 31 ms 32 ms 154 ms 436 ms 343 ms 102 ms 76 ms 254 ms 163.88
75.75.75.75 20 ms 16 ms 17 ms 78 ms 191 ms 293 ms 68 ms 75 ms 203 ms 106.77
75.75.76.76 35 ms 33 ms 34 ms 149 ms 437 ms 283 ms 123 ms 102 ms 464 ms 184.44
cloudflare 17 ms 19 ms 19 ms 103 ms 1135 ms 427 ms 69 ms 293 ms 191 ms 252.55
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18 ms 17 ms 17 ms 45 ms 209 ms 231 ms 73 ms 49 ms 358 ms 113.00
google 21 ms 17 ms 16 ms 37 ms 381 ms 124 ms 79 ms 28 ms 183 ms 98.44
quad9 18 ms 19 ms 17 ms 42 ms 211 ms 127 ms 71 ms 73 ms 181 ms 84.33
freenom 36 ms 49 ms 59 ms 88 ms 534 ms 342 ms 219 ms 82 ms 204 ms 179.22
opendns 16 ms 19 ms 27 ms 23 ms 1514 ms 325 ms 85 ms 69 ms 488 ms 285.11
norton 25 ms 27 ms 26 ms 134 ms 389 ms 243 ms 277 ms 273 ms 354 ms 194.22
cleanbrowsing 22 ms 24 ms 27 ms 105 ms 533 ms 142 ms 70 ms 289 ms 199 ms 156.77
yandex 192 ms 197 ms 191 ms 293 ms 378 ms 803 ms 287 ms 603 ms 232 ms 352.88
adguard 84 ms 75 ms 74 ms 144 ms 240 ms 257 ms 72 ms 292 ms 170 ms 156.44
neustar 18 ms 21 ms 16 ms 29 ms 389 ms 222 ms 276 ms 285 ms 315 ms 174.55
comodo 65 ms 65 ms 82 ms 119 ms 458 ms 417 ms 236 ms 267 ms 290 ms 222.11
This was my setup for reference:
DOMAINS2TEST="www.google.com amazon.com facebook.com mateja.prelovac.com enigma.rs hmdt.jp podravka.hr argentia.com.ar bildung.sachsen.de"
Here [1] is a simple script to test your theory. Dependencies are the "bc" and "dnsutils" packages. Edit the script to contain your resolvers of choice, including 8.8.4.4.
[1] - https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest
In Ask HN: What Server Powers 8.8.8.8?Slow DNS Lookup on MacBook M1?
1 points · Open discussionIs Your DNS Slower in macOS Big Sur
2 points · Open discussionIf you checkout this script [1] what numbers do you get?
[1] - https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest
In Ask HN: Is anyone else seeing slow DNS?I'm more often in need of CLI that does that for me and have grown used to:
https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest
In DNS servers that offer privacy and filteringThis script might help you compare the speed of the DNS server to any other DNS server out there: https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest/blob/master/dns...
In AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS ServerFor whatever it is worth: Cloudflare, I totally love your geekyness.
@cloudshell:~$ nslookup 1.1.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa name = one.one.one.one.
And your DNS is fast, the differences from the points I have tried(1) them on myself are not as big as what you list. But they are always fastest.
1: https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest
In one.one.one.one - the Internet’s Fastest, Privacy-First DNS ResolverPushed a shell script to compare all of them from your location:
https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest
$ sh ./dnstest.sh |sort -k 22 -n
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average
cloudflare 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 4 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1.30
norton 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2.00
neustar 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 22 ms 3.90
cleanbrowsing 11 ms 23 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 13 ms 12 ms 11 ms 12.50
google 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms 21 ms 21 ms 61 ms 3 ms 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms 18.10
opendns 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 39 ms 2 ms 75 ms 2 ms 21 ms
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39 ms 13 ms 19.70
comodo 22 ms 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 23 ms 22.20
quad9 10 ms 37 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 145 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms 27.20
yandex 177 ms 216 ms 178 ms 182 ms 186 ms 177 ms 183 ms 174 ms 186 ms 222 ms 188.10
adguard 199 ms 210 ms 200 ms 201 ms 202 ms 202 ms 199 ms 200 ms 198 ms 201 ms 201.20