thank you. that of course worked (apologies for not fully understanding the parsing of the base file). interestingly enough, with that search addition in the base file, now the settings from /etc/network/interfaces are now showing up in resolv.conf (bogus.com is appended to the other dns-search settings) .... and on 3 successive startups.
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