Thanks, OK. So here's what I've got so far. I've got this thing doing asynchronous HEADs. I'm allowing 10 HEAD requests to be fired off at a time. But, here's the but... it doesn't really seem to be working any faster than an LWP based version forked into 10 processes. Perhaps, you were right Corion. Maybe this is not the kind of optimisation my crawler needs. Any other ideas? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use AnyEvent::HTTP;

my ($domain,$START_TIME,$MAX_QUERIES,$MAX_QUEUE,$time,$done,$heads);
my (@condvars);

$START_TIME  = time;
$MAX_QUERIES = 10;
$MAX_QUEUE   = 10;
$heads       = 0;

while (1)
{
  # send dns packets
  for my $i (1..$MAX_QUERIES)
  {
    $domain = <>;
    # clean off newline
    chomp $domain;
    my $http_url = "http://www.".$domain;
    my $condvar = AnyEvent->condvar;
    push @condvars, $condvar;
    http_request HEAD => $http_url, sub 
                                 {
                                   #warn Dumper @_;
                                      $condvar->send;
                                 };
  }
  
  while (my $condvar = pop @condvars)
  {
    $condvar->recv;
  }
  
  $done += $MAX_QUERIES;
  $time = time - $START_TIME;
  print "Tried $done domains, $heads headers found in $time seconds.\n
+";
}

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In reply to Re^2: AnyEvent::HTTP usage by jc
in thread Async DNS with LWP by jc

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