How to measure DNS lookup time?

Kaz Wolfe

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Is there a way to to measure DNS lookup time? I asked this question to myself but it is not an easy question to answer. Needing someone help me on this. Thanks!
 

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On Linux you can measure time with nslookup:

# time nslookup google.at 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.at
Address: 216.58.211.99


real 0m0,059s
user 0m0,014s
sys 0m0,010s
 

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You can use dig command as well.

# dig www.google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.4-RedHat-9.9.4-51.el7 <<>> www.google.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16138
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 149 IN A 172.217.12.196

;; Query time: 9 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sat Nov 04 17:11:09 IST 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 59
 
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