How can I eliminate slow resolving/loading of localhost/virtualhost (a 2-3 second lag) on Mac OS X Lion?

Question

Since setting up my development environments on Mac OS X Lion (brand new macbook air purchased in January 2012), I have noticed that resolving to a virtual host is very slow

Answer 1

Make sure to put the IP v6 entries not in the line with localhost

::1 localhost

the IP v6 entries go in a separate line

fe80::1%lo0 here and_here

It is sometimes really fast now, but there are rare exceptions where the old lags come back. They might however be based on other reasons.