What DNS server should I use to receive AWS internal addresses for my nginx resolver?

I'm using an AWS Elasticache server example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com which I want nginx to be able to use in a location directive (this is just a simplistic example):

location /cached {
  set $memcached_key $uri;
  memcached_pass  example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com:11211;
  try_files $uri =404;
}

Because Elasticache node IP addresses can change, I don't want to use the current IP address of example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com.

What resolver IP should I use to get AWS internal IP addresses (10.x) instead of the public facing versions (79.x)?

On the machine that nginx is running on, I can mimic this with these host calls:

$ host example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com
$ 10.120.40.80
$ # ^^^ that's the correct internal address I want to use
$
$ host example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com 8.8.4.4
$ 79.125.100.150
$ # ^^^ that's the public IP that I don't want to use

For instance, if I use the Google public DNS with the resolver, I'll get 79.x addresses and not the 10.x ones I want:

location /cached {
  resolver 8.8.4.4 ipv6=off valid=5m;
  set $memcached_key $uri;
  memcached_pass  example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com:11211;
  try_files $uri =404;
}

I can't use 127.0.0.1 as I'm not running my own DNS server.

dig +trace example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com

gives this trace;

dig +trace example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.co

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> +trace example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.co
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       518400  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 228 bytes from 172.16.0.23#53(172.16.0.23) in 0 ms

com.                    172800  IN      NS      a.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      b.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      c.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      d.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      e.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      f.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      g.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      h.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      i.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      j.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      k.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      l.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      m.gtld-servers.net.
;; Received 503 bytes from 199.7.83.42#53(L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 30 ms

amazonaws.com.          172800  IN      NS      u1.amazonaws.com.
amazonaws.com.          172800  IN      NS      u2.amazonaws.com.
amazonaws.com.          172800  IN      NS      r1.amazonaws.com.
amazonaws.com.          172800  IN      NS      r2.amazonaws.com.
;; Received 191 bytes from 192.5.6.30#53(a.gtld-servers.net) in 20 ms

euw1.cache.amazonaws.com. 300   IN      NS      ns-1439.awsdns-51.org.
euw1.cache.amazonaws.com. 300   IN      NS      ns-108.awsdns-13.com.
euw1.cache.amazonaws.com. 300   IN      NS      ns-738.awsdns-28.net.
euw1.cache.amazonaws.com. 300   IN      NS      ns-1905.awsdns-46.co.uk.
;; Received 196 bytes from 156.154.64.10#53(u1.amazonaws.com) in 12 ms

example.foo.euw1.cache.amazonaws.co. 15 IN CNAME ec2-79-125-28-100.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.
euw1.cache.amazonaws.com. 172800 IN     NS      ns-108.awsdns-13.com.
euw1.cache.amazonaws.com. 172800 IN     NS      ns-1439.awsdns-51.org.
euw1.cache.amazonaws.com. 172800 IN     NS      ns-1905.awsdns-46.co.uk.
euw1.cache.amazonaws.com. 172800 IN     NS      ns-738.awsdns-28.net.
;; Received 246 bytes from 205.251.197.159#53(ns-1439.awsdns-51.org) in 10 ms

Can I safely use one of the u1.amazonaws.com, u2.amazonaws.com, r1.amazonaws.com, r2.amazonaws.com servers?

Edit 1: doesn't look like I can, as trying to use those servers (and in fact any of the awsdns servers) with a host call either don't return addresses or return 5(REFUSED).

Edit 2 ah, if I dig around in the DHCP assigned data I can see the IP address I need to use:

$ grep domain-name-servers /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.*
$ /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases:  option domain-name-servers 172.16.0.23;

And then using that 172.16.0.23 address in a host call correctly returns the internal 10.x address.

This still feels a bit brittle because that DHCP assigned name server could change...