Scripts (php) slow to perform lookups

[n3tph4t]

I am running a couple of scripts which need to resolve hostnames as part of their operation.
Initially I had my resolv.conf set up poorly and this meant that even lookups performing ping were slow. I have changed this and these are now much faster.

My scripts however are still slow. I am using sockets for these scripts and so I guess my question is....does PHP(/apache?) use a different list when resolving a hostname.
Either way, can you point me in a direction it may be worth me looking at?

My script is basically:

function GooglePageRank($url){ 
    $arr = parse_url($url); 
    $url = $arr['host']; 
    $url="info:".$url; $ch=GoogleCSum($url,0xE6359A60); 
    $host="toolbarqueries.google.com"; $hostip=gethostbyname($host); 
    $query ="GET /search?client=navclient-auto&ch=6".$ch."&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&features=Rank&q=".rawurlencode($url)." HTTP/1.0\r\n"; 
    $query.="Host: $host\r\n"; $rank=-1; 
    $query.="User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)\r\n"; 
    $query.="Connection: Close\r\n\r\n"; 
    $fp=fsockopen($hostip,80,$errno,$errstr,30); 
    if ($fp) 
    { fputs($fp,$query); $data=""; while (!feof($fp)) $data.=fgets($fp,4096); fclose($fp); 
    $data=explode("\n",$data); 
    foreach ($data as $line) 
    if (!is_bool(strpos($line,"Rank_1"))) 
    { $rank=explode(":",trim($line)); $rank=$rank[2]; break; } } 
    return $rank; 
}

Thank in advance

[n3tph4t]

bump thanks

[eNetHosts]

bump thanks

Why copy the whole lot of you post? When you just had to post reply "bump" hmm anyway...

If someone can help they'll find you post a bump won't get you any further

[n3tph4t]

Why copy the whole lot of you post? When you just had to post reply "bump" hmm anyway...

If someone can help they'll find you post a bump won't get you any further

I wasn't deliberate, I am used to quoting when I post on lots of forums so it was out of habit (now removed).

I'm not sure what you are trying to say with your second sentence:

"If someone can help they'll find you post a bump won't get you any further "

?!

[acegames]

Sorry to bump an old post but im experiencing the same problem , did you resolve this ?