Table of Contents dig & grep namebench dig & grep A straightforward way is by using the dig util from the dnsutils package and grep the results. This works well for quick debug on-the-go: # apt-get install dnsutils $ dig @202.188.0.132 archive.org | grep "Query time:" ;; Query time: 356 msec $ dig @8.8.8.8 archive.org | grep "Query time:" ;; Query time: 48 msec Note: 202.