DNS Issues - MacbookAir running Snow Leopard

It seems like it has been since the update to snow leopard when my dns issues started, but I'm not quite sure that is the problem.

I have a MBA, so all of my networking is done over my Wireless(AirPort)

I can connect to ANY Wireless Networks fine, grab a DHCP address just fine, and also grab 2/3 DNS servers from the DHCP server just fine.

My issue is that at random intervals my MBA will stop resolving addresses. It can continue to ping out to a DNS server via it's IP address, but will have a connection timeout on resolving the address for roughly 45 seconds. When the 45 seconds is up, it will begin to resolve addresses again. I have poked around google and found that it could be due to DNS sever priorities in Snow Leopard using the bottom DNS first instead of the top. I ruled out that issue by adding on one static DNS server (4.2.2.1)in my network configurations manually.

This happens on every network I am connected to that has a gateway to the internet. I have not tried to resolve local names on a local network, but I have tried resolving 'normal' addresses.

For now, I'm writing this post via remote desktop (windows machine) from my MBA with a static IP inserted as the address because if I stick a address that needs resolved first, every 3-10 minutes it will freeze and won't resolve the name, lose the connection until it can resolve the names again.

I have posted what I thought might help someone else diagnose the issue, because I am stump. Please take a look at my testing outputs here:

http://www.oregonstate.edu/~hillchri/dns

Check out the net testout.txt is where I did the following bash script:

#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..5000}
do
echo $(date)
ping -c 1 4.2.2.1 | grep ms
echo "nslookup www.google.com"
nslookup www.google.com
echo "nslookup www.yahoo.com"
nslookup www.yahoo.com
echo "dig @4.2.2.1 google.com"
dig @4.2.2.1 google.com
echo "------------------------------------------------"
done

Message was edited by: chillconsulting