I expect that in the future NameBench will provide reporting from this database without running a benchmark.

Upload and share your anonymized results should be checkmarked if you want an easy way to share your results over the Internet.

Include censorship checks will include websites that are often censored because of political views, violence and hatred, gambling, etc.

Include best available regional DNS services should be checkmarked because these will usually be your fastest DNS servers.

For the results graphs, NameBench will usually only use the primary DNS server because it removes duplicated/backup/replicated servers so, for example, Google DNS will only count as one DNS server although Google has many servers and several IP addresses. NameBench defaults to 10 DNS servers so the more global servers that are included then the fewer regional DNS servers will be included. If you don't check this then you will only get results for the fastest DNS servers for your system. They will provide a good baseline for comparing other DNS servers.

Include global DNS providers should probably be checkmarked.

202.180.64.2 is the secondary IP address that I manually input in Windows. On my PC 192.168.2.1 is automatically assigned (by DHCP) from the router. In this screenshot, 192.168.2.1 is an IP address reserved for private networks such as my router which has two DNS servers defined. You can delete them from the test or append other servers to the list.

Nameservers lists the IP addresses of your system DNS servers.

The NameBench options are explained as follows: Once edited you have to run DNS Benchmark with the command line option: Both files are available at Resource Files for Advanced Benchmarking. Note that both lists are uncensored so by testing these sites there is potential for embarrassment or worse. The default is the top 50 Alexa sites from 2009, there is also a list of 100 top Alexa sites.

domains.txt contains the list of websites to be used for the tests.

ini files with different names and add or remove them from the test list anytime that you like. It is not created until you decide to add or remove servers using the menu or until you have run the test to create your own customized list of servers.

DNSBench.ini contains the list of DNS servers to be tested.

csv results in Excel, summarized the list of sites and DNS hosts using two pivot reports (there are other ways to do it), then copied the lists into the respective files:

I created both lists from those tested in NameBench so that I can compare the results of the two programs. DNS Benchmark has two configuration lists which do not exist when you first run DNS Benchmark.

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