[Mildly OT] Userland Control Of getbostbyname()

[Tim Daneliuk]

Is it possible to control *which* DNS server (and port) a userland program
queries for DNS resolution when doing gethosbyname() and gethostbyip()
calls?  dig and nslookup seem capable of defining the DNS server to query,
but I don't know if they're doing the call directly or via the gethostby...
calls.

In a perfect world, I'd get a solution to this that was language agnostic -
a way to tell my userland programs - in C, Java, Python, perl, go ... 
always use this server:port when doing name resolution.

TIA,
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