[alaties]

Had a similar problem a couple years ago where I needed to use alternative DNS libraries to troubleshoot issues in a company's infrastructure.

Golang's rules for what implementation to use are found here: https://golang.org/pkg/net/#hdr-Name_Resolution

A really solid alternative DNS client implementation can be found here: https://github.com/miekg/dns. Real easy to read and vet compared to a few other libraries I ran into when working on this problem.