#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Net::DNS;

my $domain = shift or die "Please supply a domain to query\n";
my @ips = resolve($domain);

my $i;

for (@ips) {
  print ++$i . ": $_\n";
}

sub resolve {
    my $domain = shift;

    my $res   = Net::DNS::Resolver->new;
    my $query = $res->search($domain);
    my @results;

    if ($query) {
        foreach my $rr ($query->answer) {
            next if $rr->type ne "A";
            push @results, $rr->address . " (record type " . $rr->type . ")";
        }
        return @results;
    }
    else {
        return $res->errorstring;
    }
}

##</code><code>##

time perl resolver.pl cnn.com
1: 64.236.24.12 (record type A)
2: 64.236.24.20 (record type A)
3: 64.236.24.28 (record type A)
4: 64.236.29.120 (record type A)
5: 64.236.16.20 (record type A)
6: 64.236.16.52 (record type A)
7: 64.236.16.84 (record type A)
8: 64.236.16.116 (record type A)

real    0m0.562s
user    0m0.320s
sys     0m0.010s