Shell script to test the performance of the most popular DNS resolvers from your location.
Includes by default:
- CloudFlare 1.1.1.1
- Level3 4.2.2.1
- Google 8.8.8.8
- Quad9 9.9.9.9
- Freenom 80.80.80.80
- OpenDNS
- Norton
- CleanBrowsing
- Yandex
- AdGuard
- Neustar
- Comodo
You need to install bc and dig. For Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install bc dnsutils
$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest/
$ cd dnsperftest
$ bash ./dnstest.sh
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average
cloudflare 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1.10
google 22 ms 1 ms 4 ms 24 ms 1 ms 19 ms 3 ms 56 ms 21 ms 21 ms 17.20
quad9 10 ms 19 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 55 ms 15.40
opendns 39 ms 2 ms 2 ms 20 ms 2 ms 72 ms 2 ms 39 ms 39 ms 3 ms 22.00
norton 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 1.80
cleanbrowsing 11 ms 14 ms 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 11 ms 36 ms 11 ms 13 ms 13.80
yandex 175 ms 209 ms 175 ms 181 ms 188 ms 179 ms 178 ms 179 ms 177 ms 208 ms 184.90
adguard 200 ms 200 ms 200 ms 199 ms 202 ms 200 ms 202 ms 200 ms 199 ms 248 ms 205.00
neustar 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 1.90
comodo 21 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 21 ms 22 ms 24 ms 22.00
To sort with the fastest first, add sort -k 22 -n at the end of the command:
$ bash ./dnstest.sh |sort -k 22 -n
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average
cloudflare 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 4 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1.30
norton 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2.00
neustar 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 22 ms 3.90
cleanbrowsing 11 ms 23 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 13 ms 12 ms 11 ms 12.50
google 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms 21 ms 21 ms 61 ms 3 ms 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms 18.10
opendns 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 39 ms 2 ms 75 ms 2 ms 21 ms 39 ms 13 ms 19.70
comodo 22 ms 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 23 ms 22.20
quad9 10 ms 37 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 145 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms 27.20
yandex 177 ms 216 ms 178 ms 182 ms 186 ms 177 ms 183 ms 174 ms 186 ms 222 ms 188.10
adguard 199 ms 210 ms 200 ms 201 ms 202 ms 202 ms 199 ms 200 ms 198 ms 201 ms 201.20
If you receive an error $'\r': command not found, convert the file to a Linux-compatible line endings using:
tr -d '\15\32' < dnstest.sh > dnstest-2.sh
Then run bash ./dnstest-2.sh