Not sure if it is RDNS.
I had similar issues on Fedora, and for me it was to do with IP6.
Konqueror web browser took ages to load a page. IIRC Firefox handled it OK.
Try Googling for 'uninstalling ipv6 linux'
I already tried that. The /etc/sysconfig/network has the IPV6_ENABLE=no. Disabling the ip6 modules is not feasible, as the bonding module depends on it.
Another thing is how many DNS IP addresses do you have in /etc/resolv.conf?
I don't have an ISP DNS, but the address of the internal DNS server, which has all the mappings for our domain.
Thanks for your help, I'll keep on trying :)
Regards,
Gabriel