DNS Benchmark Tool
Compare and monitor resolvers
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I built a CLI to benchmark DNS resolvers after discovering DNS was adding 300ms to my API requests.v0.3.0 just released with new features: compare: Test single domain across all resolvers top: Rank resolvers by latency/reliability/balanced monitor: Continuous tracking with threshold alerts1,400+ downloads in first week.Quick start: pip install dns-benchmark-tool dns-benchmark compare --domain google.comCLI stays free forever. Hosted version (multi-region, historical tracking, alerts) coming Q1 2026.GitHub: https://github.com/frankovo/dns-benchmark-tool Feedback: https://forms.gle/BJBiyBFvRJHskyR57Built with Python + dnspython. Open to questions and feedback!
HN · launched Nov 19, 2025 · 59 upvotes (top 15%) · 0 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A DNS benchmarking CLI sending parallel UDP/DoH queries across known public DNS IPs to measure response times and calculate statistics can be quickly built with standard libraries.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ISC Looking Glass (DNS lookup snapshots), dnsdiag (DNS packet-level diagnostics), Gibson's GRC DNS Benchmark (GUI-based testing), etcd (service discovery)
Concerns raised: GPTSlop quality in code/service offering, Blocklist-based resolvers can be slower, Raw speed alone doesn't capture systemic DNS issues
Feature requests: Docker image for easier setup
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 157 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 158 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 15 days after the earliest competitor.
- D.NIX. · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- DNStracr · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Ping6.it · hn · 2026-01-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Open database tracking 77K public DNS servers every 10 minutes · hn · 2025-12-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- dns-manager · github · 2026-09-18 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Cloud Ping · ph · 2026-10-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Domain IP Lookup DNS Tracking · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DNSvivo · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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