Timeout and fsockopen

Hello! I'm trying to find if some host is up or not. For example $fp = @fsockopen ('www.damirjosar.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 1); because this url is expired it takes about 10 seconds to get response from DNS, but with fsockopne it take 62 seconds. but i set timeout to 1. I also try checkdnsrr and gethostbyname and all functions takes about 60 seconds. Why?. Can this be set to lover value. I was looking in source code, but I'm not good at C, so I can't figure out what the problem is. I'm doing some link checker and when i get to host like this everything stops and waits........ -- Best regards, uros