mmm, okay.
Well, just for the sake of the exercise, I re-wrote your script and simplified it a bit. I also changed it so that it would take a domain name to test from the command line. Here is my version: 
#!/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;
    }
}

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I get similar results with this as I did with your original, but perhaps you can try this and see if it makes any difference. Some sample output: 

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

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As you can see, still quite fast. I also tried it on a windoze box and it returns just as quickly.

Hope this helps somewhat,
Darren :)

In reply to Re^3: Net::DNS::Resolver and very slow reply by McDarren
in thread Net::DNS::Resolver and very slow reply by mellin

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