DNS Monitoring

All our nameservers are locally and remotely monitored and we capture, aggregate and analyse traffic across them to understand their response characteristics and the characteristics of how clients use them.

DNSMON

External monitoring results of the performance of the .nz secondary name servers is available from the RIPE NCC DNS Monitoring Service (DNSMON). DNSMON provides a comprehensive, objective and up-to-date overview of the quality of the service provided by the .nz secondary name servers. http://dnsmon.ripe.net/

DNSMON Graphs:

ns1.dns.net.nz
ns2.dns.net.nz
ns3.dns.net.nz

WAND AMP

A number of our servers are also monitored through the WAND AMP system of probes.

Smokeping

The following latency graphs for ns1 and ns2 have been produced using Smokeping. From our Wellington site, SmokePing sends 20 pings every 5 minutes to the name servers.