[needs-packaging] namebench

[Richard Nienaber]

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Download: http://namebench.googlecode.com/files/namebench-1.0.tgz

About: namebench is a google project that attempts to optimize part of your internet experience. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google.

License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

Although I was able to install namebench using Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 64bit, I didn't find it in any of my GNOME 2 menus; I had to run it from the command line.

This video explains that it should be in Applications > Internet > namebench:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_estj1WndY

So, it appears that namebench is now packaged, but it is not in the gnome menus after installation.

[Oskar Wallgren (oskar-wallgren13)]

Package here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/namebench