Basics

dnspyre is a tool for benchmarking DNS servers, it works by spawning configured number of concurrent worker thread, where each worker thread is sending DNS queries for a domains provided to the dnspyre tool. The dnspyre runs until one of the conditions is met:

• configured number of repetitions of domain queries is sent (if --number flag is specified)
• the required duration of benchmark run elapses (if --duration flag is specified)
• benchmark is interrupted with the SIGINT signal

Run benchmark with the configured number of repetitions

This example runs the benchmark in 10 parallel threads, where each thread will send 2 example.com. DNS queries of type A one after another to the 8.8.8.8 server

dnspyre -n 2 -c 10 --server 8.8.8.8 example.com

Run benchmark over specified time

This example runs the benchmark in 10 parallel threads for a duration of 30 seconds while sending example.com DNS queries of type A to the 8.8.8.8 server

dnspyre --duration 30s -c 10 --server 8.8.8.8 google.com