Specifying DNS server for lookup in Go

Question

Is there a way to specify which DNS server to use for a name lookup?

Looking at https://golang.org/pkg/net/#LookupHost seems it will use only the local resolver

Answer 1

Answer from /u/g-a-c on reddit

If I'm reading that doc right (maybe not)...

Create yourself a local Resolver, with a custom Dialer, using the DNS address you want to use (https://golang.org/pkg/net/#Resolver) then use the LookupAddr function of that Resolver?

edit:

package main

import (
    "context"
    "net"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    r := &net.Resolver{
        PreferGo: true,
        Dial: func(ctx context.Context, network, address string) (net.Conn, error) {
            d := net.Dialer{
                Timeout: time.Millisecond * time.Duration(10000),
            }
            return d.DialContext(ctx, "udp", "8.8.8.8:53")
        },
    }
    ip, _ := r.LookupHost(context.Background(), "www.google.com")

    print(ip[0])
}

This seems to work - on my firewall this shows that my machine is opening connections to Google rather than a local domain controller