nslookup not using the specified nameserver

[George Nychis]

sorry, I meant to specify that my platform is Android.  Maybe that
brings a limitation to light.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:56 PM, George Nychis <gnychis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am able to use nslookup on my Mac, for example, specifying the DNS
> namesever to use (e.g., a local one like 192.168.1.1).
>
> Based on the nslookup usage in busybox is the following:
> Usage: nslookup [HOST] [SERVER]
>
> However, no matter what I specify [SERVER] to be, it still ends up
> using the default nameservers.  I have verified this using a PCAP
> dump.  The IPv4 destination of the DNS requests always end up being
> the default nameservers.
>
> Trying to dig in to the busybox source code, but if anyone knows of
> this issue and knows it to be something more fundamental, please let
> me know.
>
> Thanks!
> George