NS1 Creates Open Source Tool for Testing DNS Performance and Functionality
Summary
“Like many popular open source tools, Flamethrower was created to address a need we had internally at NS1,” said Shannon Weyrick, vice president of architecture at NS1. We built Flamethrower to enable complex testing for DNS performance and functionality so that traffic teams can gain a better understanding of the impact of potential changes to applications and infrastructure in actual production situations.” It simulates multiple concurrent clients and generates actionable metrics, including send and receive counts, timeouts, errors and data on minimum, maximum and average latency. It can also be used to mimic the surges in traffic an organization might see during a DDoS attack or stress test systems for failover, making it an ideal tool for wargaming and chaos engineering . Only NS1’s purpose-built platform, which is built on a modern API-first architecture, transforms DNS into an intelligent, efficient and automated system, driving dramatic gains in reliability, resiliency, security and performance of application delivery infrastructure.
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