time (for i in `seq 1 1000`; do dig google.com @8.8.8.8 > /dev/null 2>>/dev/null; done) real 0m24.156s user 0m4.825s sys 0m3.517s time (for i in `seq 1 1000`; do dig google.com @217.237.148.70 > /dev/null 2>>/dev/null; done) real 0m27.430s user 0m5.088s sys 0m3.406s time (for i in `seq 1 1000`; do dig google.com @127.0.0.1 > /dev/null 2>>/dev/null; done) real 0m7.632s user 0m4.305s sys 0m2.736s