DNSPerf Examples

The command below queries a DNS server at 192.168. 0.161 for 60 seconds, it will send 10 queries per second.

# dnsperf -s 192.168.0.161 -d queryfile-example-current -l 60 -c 1 -Q 10


The following command is a little less kind on your DNS server located at 192.168. 0.161 in that it will act as 20 clients over 30 seconds with 60 queries a second and give a step by step output for each query.
# dnsperf -s 192.168.0.161 -d queryfile-example-current -l 30 -c 20 -Q 60 -v

The following will test two DNS servers one at 192.168.0.161 and one at 192.168.0.53 for 30 seconds.

# dnsperf -s 192.168.0.161 -s 192.168.0.53 -d queryfile-example-current -l 30