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mastax ◴[] No.16728960[source]
If you want to figure out what the fastest DNS server is for you, I suggest this freeware utility https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
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s3nnyy ◴[] No.16729034[source]
Is there a thing like this for macOS?
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1. telesilla ◴[] No.16729050[source]
Namebench hasn't been updated since 2010, but I just checked and it's running fine on my Sierra box.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench/downloads

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2. indigodaddy ◴[] No.16729083[source]
The browser doesn't open after the operation/queries finish for me on High Sierra
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3. telesilla ◴[] No.16729305[source]
It should still save the results, check your console and open the .html file

> Saving detailed results to /var/folders/j8/vd7q07z7r_5wt0s2mq00vgn/T/namebench_2018-04-01_1856.csv

> default 18:56:37.001803 +0200 namebench Opening /var/folders/j8/vd7q07z7r_5wt0s2mq00vgn/T/namebench_2018-04-01_1856.html