On Sep 27, 2011, at 13:53, Frank Cox wrote: > Why do you think dnscache won't help? Caching is not restricted to your local > domain. I guess I forgot to mention that only the first query is slow. If you repeat the query, the response is fast, so it's already being cached somewhere. I always assumed that's how DNS worked. So in order to test this "slowness", I have to keep thinking of domains to look up. Alfred