Stephen Reese

Parsing Microsoft DNS Server Logs

This is a quick post about one of many ways you may want to parse Microsoft DNS server logs. I this case, I simply wanted to know the top talkers. We use shell and Python in this entry on a Linux host. We follow-up with an all inclusive Python script …

Google namebench helps find happy nameservers

I was recently checking name servers that I was using to resolve hosts on a network. After using tools such as ping, traceroute, and dig I decided to search around and found Google has a new tool called namebench. Intrigued I decided to give it a shot. There is support …