How to set DNS server in Windows command-line?

I'm trying to set a DNS server address for a test environment I have, but I'm having issues figuring out the right format.

I've tried a few different variations, but none seem to work.1.

The format specifier is a special character, and has the following description: The format specifier is a character that specifies the type of the operand. It can be one of the following: The value of the operand. %n The name of the operand. %s The full pathname of the operand. So, to set the DNS server address, you want to use the %s specifier and pass in the hostname as an operand.

How do I specify DNS server with nslookup?

I'm trying to resolve a host name to its IP address and its failing.

The server has 2 DNS servers configured for itself, the problem is that I have to use the first one instead of the second one. Any ideas on how to specify which DNS server to use?
Nslookup dns.net server firstdns.com.
> Connecting to firstdns. Name: dns.net Address: 192.168.0.1#53
> dns. Fetchmail-5.3.2-6.4.el56.i386.rpm
Nslookup dns.net server seconddns.
> Connecting to seconddns. You can specify your preferred DNS server using the -server switch in nslookup: # nslookup www.yahoo.com -server 10.11.12.13
You need to use the -server flag to specify which DNS server to use, it should point you in the right direction. However, this is not recommended, use something like dnsmasq which can automatically manage dns queries for you. As others have pointed out, you need to use the -server switch with nslookup, but to give you an idea of the format that the server needs to receive the dns server, you can use dig -x to show the query, and the -x indicates you need to specify a DNS server for this query: dig -x yourhostname.com @127.1
Will give you the ip address of your DNS server. It's worth pointing out that the DNS server you're using for the IP address might have a firewall/filtering rule blocking it, or it could be that the domain name you're querying for doesn't actually exist.

How do I find my authoritative DNS server using nslookup?

I tried following the answers on this site.

But the domain name that I was trying to use nslookup on wasn't found. So instead of nslookup -host domain-name -server server.example.com, I did
Nslookup -nofo -server server.com and it returned: server: Default Server: server.com Address: 216.58.192.100
Name: (in reply to a whois query for server.com) Address: 2a01:2a00::9000:1. 2001:980:3c00:1::9000. 10.14 Then I searched google and was told to use the -servers switch. The way I did it was nslookup -nofo -servers server.com And got the correct results. I thought if I run nslookup with. nslookup -nofo -server server.com the server would tell me its IP address and then I would find the corresponding A record for the domain name. However, there is no output from the command. Also when I run nslookup with
nslookup -help. It tells me to pass -servers or -ip. If I pass -servers, nslookup asks me for a list of servers. If I enter the ip address of the server I want, it doesn't work. ?
Edit: If I look up the IP address in the WHOIS database, it says I own the domain. If I go to the domain, it works fine. I just want to know what's causing the problem so that I can fix it.

Why do you need an authoritative server? Most people don't care, they only want to resolve a specific host name (eg example.com). In such a case, the default servers returned by nslookup are usually sufficient.

The only reason to need an authoritative server is if you need to resolve every hostname in a domain, eg com, us, etc.