{"id":417,"date":"2011-11-07T06:19:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ubuntupirates.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2011-11-07T06:19:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:19:54","slug":"namebench-open-source-dns-benchmark-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Namebench is a Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Namebench<\/strong> is a cross-platform application that can be run under Mac OS X, Windows and GNU\/Linux. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Namebench on Ubuntu.<br \/>\n<strong>Get Started<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Install first this dependency to be able to use a GUI for Namebench:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install python-tk<\/pre>\n<p>2. Using the Terminal, run these commands to install Namebench (v1.3.1) on Ubuntu:<\/p>\n<pre>wget http:\/\/namebench.googlecode.com\/files\/namebench-1.3.1-source.tgz\ntar -zxvf namebench-1.3.1-source.tgz\ncd namebench-1.3.1\nsudo python setup.py install<\/pre>\n<p>3. To start the application, run this command:<\/p>\n<pre>.\/namebench.py<\/pre>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n4. In the window that pops up, submit name servers separated by a comma, then click Start Benchmark to start your test.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Screenshots<\/strong><br \/>\nHere is what the nameserver overview looks like:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nNote:<br \/>\n<strong>Namebench<\/strong> is now added to the official repository of Ubuntu, you can now install it with this command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install namebench<\/pre>\n<p>Then run open a terminal and execute:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo namebench<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namebench is a cross-platform application that can be run under Mac OS X, Windows and GNU\/Linux. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Namebench on Ubuntu. Get Started 1. Install first this dependency to be able to use a GUI for Namebench: sudo apt-get install python-tk 2. Using the Terminal, run these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[225,226,44,227],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opensource","tag-dns-server","tag-namebench","tag-networking","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}