[perryl@ made mentioned it can be done easier still, no tail needed]

As I was curious what as112 would do in the queries-per-second department I asked a friend to run it on his super duper Macbook Pro (spec++) (of course running Ubuntu).

So I needed him to run the binary as112, queryperf and a data file called d. After copying the files to his laptop, we could benchmark it. But wouldn't it be nicer to download just one binary run it and get the number?

After some Googling I got the following going. First create a shell fragment:

#!/bin/bash
unzip -o $0
( ./as112 &) && sleep 1 && \
./queryperf -s 127.0.0.1 -p 8053 -l 10 -d d && kill -HUP -$$
exit

This has to be specific to your needs (i.e. the names of the files) but the gist is, unzip the zip start the as112 daemon, run queryperf on it and kill the lot. This shell fragment is saved as ~/self.

To make it work, I go to a directory with queryperf, as112 and d in it.

% zip as112.zip as112 queryperf d
  adding: as112 (deflated 75%)
  adding: queryperf (deflated 63%)
  adding: d (deflated 33%)

Concatenate the shell fragment and the zip file.

% cat ~/self as112.zip > a; mv a as112.zip ; chmod +x as112.zip

Sample Run

In an empty directory:

% ./as112.zip
Archive:  xx
  inflating: as112                   
  inflating: queryperf               
  inflating: d                       

DNS Query Performance Testing Tool
Version: $Id: queryperf.c,v 1.12 2007/09/05 07:36:04 marka Exp $

[Status] Processing input data
[Status] Sending queries (beginning with 127.0.0.1)
[Status] Testing complete

Statistics:

  Parse input file:     multiple times
  Run time limit:       10 seconds
  Ran through file:     362734 times

  Queries sent:         725469 queries
  Queries completed:    725469 queries
  Queries lost:         0 queries
  Queries delayed(?):   0 queries

  RTT max:              0.012138 sec
  RTT min:              0.000008 sec
  RTT average:          0.000207 sec
  RTT std deviation:    0.000226 sec
  RTT out of range:     0 queries

  Percentage completed: 100.00%
  Percentage lost:        0.00%

  Started at:           Sun Jun 23 19:26:13 2013
  Finished at:          Sun Jun 23 19:26:23 2013
  Ran for:              10.000072 seconds

  Queries per second:   72546.377666 qps

zsh: hangup     ./as112.zip

Download

If you are feeling lucky (bold?), here is the zip (compiled on 64 bit Intel): as112.zip.

See this gist for a small bash script, that implements this.