parallel DNS lookups

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I understand the standard DNS resolver, it sends out DNS queries 
sequentially to the servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf, after timeouts 
occur.

Is there a way to make the resolver query all the listed servers in 
parallel, and use the first response?

Right now, things slow down to a crawl if the main dns server is down... 
I'd rather waste some bandwidth in exchange for better reliability.


- Mike