This example is installation from source on Debian 9. Package installs are dependencies for the build. These should apply to other distributions as well.
After dependcies are installed, the usual configure, make, make install can be done.
apt-get install -y bind9utils libbind-dev gnuplot libkrb5-dev libssl-dev libcap-dev libxml2-dev libgeoip-dev
wget ftp://ftp.nominum.com/pub/nominum/dnsperf/2.1.0.0/dnsperf-src-2.1.0.0-1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf dnsperf-src-2.1.0.0-1.tar.gz
cd dnsperf-src-2.1.0.0-1/
./configure
make
make install
To get the current list of example queries: wget ftp://ftp.nominum.com/pub/nominum//dnsperf/data/queryfile-example-current.gz
Ramp up from 0 to 100.000 req/sec over a period of 60 seconds (default test):
resperf-report -s 8.8.8.8 -d queryfile-example-current
Test with 1000 req/sec for 10 minuttes (600 sec) with a 5 second ramp up:
resperf-report -s 8.8.8.8 -d queryfile-example-current -c 600 -m 1000 -r 5
resperf will stop the test when one of these conditions are met: 1) server successfully replying to all requests, 2) exceeding 65,536 outstanding queries or 3) resperf falling 1000 queries behind what it expected to send
Man page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/resperf
I think the links could use some updating - the dnsperf gzip's are available here:
https://www.dns-oarc.net/tools/dnsperf
Also the pkg-config package is now a dependency to build the binary.