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Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by InCityDreams on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:05AM (#34790299)
I still use the DNS speed finder.
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Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by CyberDildonics on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:47PM (#34799853)
Is this a joke? What does that mean?
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Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:30PM (#34800118)
At a guess, that would be this freeware util[1], which looks like a Win-only and slightly spiffier version of Namebench[2].

1: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

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

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Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by xrayarx on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:34AM (#34800764)
There doesn’t seem to be any new versions of Namebench since 2010. The grc tool was last updated in 2019 according to the website.

There are other tools, but it is not as important as it used to be.

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Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by KyeRussell on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @06:05AM (#34802315)
Touch grass.
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Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by CyberDildonics on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @08:55AM (#34803789)
Are you upset because I can't tell if a "DNS speed finer" is a real 'tool'? Wouldn't that just be pinging a list of dns servers?
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Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by SixDouble5321 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:20AM (#34816303)
Yep, that's what it does. A person can just use whatever DNS is provided by their ISP, which is the fastest in some cases. Or they can test and find out for sure.
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