[CentOS] Benchmarking DNS and DHCP

[Augie Schwer]

On 11/14/06, Ian Anderson <Ian.Anderson at clearwire.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any FOSS tools that can assist in benchmarking ISC DNS
> and DHCP services? I would like to simulate X number of users attempting to
> pull an IP, resolve DNS names, etc.  I would also like to test TCP
> connections into a CentOS server.  We have some software that communicates
> with equipment via a TCP connection and I want to simulate thousands of TCP
> connections coming into one server.

For DNS try out Nominum's queryperf:

http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/CNS_WP.pdf

It will replay a BIND query log.


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