Due to a bug in dnspython-1.7 (see http://code.google.com/p/namebench/issues/detail?id=96), namebench is almost unusable and should depend on dnspython-1.8 or use the bundled (and fixed) version of dnspython. Unmasking version 1.8 of dnspython solves the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Emerge namebench, and run the test with the checkbox "Include best available regional DNS services". Actual Results: The test ends in an endless loop (see above link for details). The system is a Gentoo x86_64 with - python 2.6.4-r1 - dnspython 1.7.1 - graphy 1.0 - httplib2 0.6.0 - jinja2 2.2.1
Fixed the dep, thanks for reporting!