How do I get "nslookup" to work ?

VMWare Fusion 4.1.4 running on Mac OS X 10.7.5 with a generic CentOS 5.8 VM

Network setup is NAT

I need to have commands like "nslookup" work for the work I would like to do with this VM.

I set up a static IP for the VM with a DHCP reservation as described in documents I found by searching, and I am getting a consistent IP address.

The hostname in DHCP is "kermit" and the domain is the default "localdomain"

hostname returns "kermit.localdomain" ( set in /etc/sysconfig/network ) and I even made an entry in /etc/hosts

But commands like dig and nslookup fail.

The Vm-vlan is 172.16.46.xxx and the failing commands refer to a nameserver address of 172.16.46.2

Is this VM-nameserver available to modify somehow ?

Thanks