As many of you recall, Nixu Software launched a free online service at howismydns.com in March 2008. Since launching the website, we’ve been seeing a constantly increasing number of visitors utilizing the online test tools to check the health of their public DNS service. In fact, it currently looks like we’ll be blowing past the 10,000 page requests per day mark any day now.

Interestingly enough, we’ve also been approached by a number of TLD operators interested in providing a similar service for their own top-level domains. To address their exact requirements, we’ve continued the development of the engine used at howismydns.com, to allow TLDs to meet their country-specific decrees on how DNS servers should be set up, as well as to create even more value to people using our online tools at How Is My DNS?.

Having finalized the development of version 2 of the DNS checking engine a while back, we’ve now upgraded the server running behind the free online service to the latest and greatest. Please do give it a go, to see what we’ve done: there’s a number of new tests the engine now performs, making it even more valuable tool for network admins.

As it happened, I was interested in seeing how the networking community has responded to the free tools at howismydns.com and decided to run a Google search using the phrase. In the search results, I found a rather flattering post on the service – thanks be4u! In case you’re reading this, I hope the new version of the service is even more useful than the first one.