> the DHCP server is on a router > Running DNS service on a machine is done by many
FWIW, I run `dnsmasq` as local DNS server on many of my machines, and this is already automatically setup to "DTRT" somehow (the DNS info obtained via DHCP are provided to `dnsmasq` and `/etc/resolv.conf` only points to 127.0.0.1). You might want to look at how they do it. Stefan