Add a --dns-resolver option

[TheGr33k]

It would be nice to have a feature that allows you to state the nameserver you want youtube-dl to use to resolve domain name.Some common example include OpenDNS , Google Public dns etc....

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[Kaligule]

I think you should be able to achive the same effect by using nslookup and a |.

[TheGr33k]

@Kaligule Could you please show an example ?

Even then we won't be able to know for sure what dns server youtube-dl sees

Feel free to correct me if i am wrong

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Kaligule notifications@github.com wrote:

I think you should be able to achive the same effect by using nslookup
and a |.

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[phihag]

The main problem is not that we cannot hook up a custom resolver class, but that we need to actually implement (a simple subset of) DNS. Unless someone contributes the necessary code (basically a pure Python implementation of gethostbyaddr), this issue will not be resolved.

[yan12125]

For those who are interested in it: I have a proof-of-concept branch at https://github.com/yan12125/youtube-dl/tree/custom-dns, which uses the ISC licensed dnspython.