DNS lookups slow in some (console) applications

Question

pacman, wget, abs (rsync) and many applications have issues getting DNS information. Since 3 months this is bugging me now, but at least I finally seem to have found out that these programs all do ipv6 DNS lookups, although I disabled ipv6 support (and the module).
When I use "curl" in pacman for fetching packages, it is super fast, also when I call "wget -4", to explicitly tell it to use ipv4. Firefox is fast, too, because I set it to disallow ipv6.
How can I tell all the other programs to use ipv4 only?
I want to use yaourt, pacman and co without having to wait for ages to download a package.
And why are only a few (console) applications affected? Do they use a common lib that tries to use ipv6 all the time?

Answer 1

Hello, ppl. Been having the same problem for over 6 months, and i never thought it was a bug, until it stumbled in this post. And i solved it thanks to Nezmer's tip about adding 'options single-request', which didn't work at first, but it got me searching the web. And here it is the result: Since /etc/resolv.conf is rewritten in every boot, simply create /etc/resolv.conf.tail with the following:
options rotate
options single-request
This file's content will be automatically added at the end of /etc/resolv.conf in every boot, et voilá, enjoy pacman, yaourt, etc without pauses...