> true, I could do that, but wouldn't dhcpcd just overwrite my good
> resolv.conf with a symlink again eventually, much like it did my original
> one?
No, I don't think so. The /etc/resolv.conf symlink was almost definitely
there because your system came that way.
> that's what makes this even more of an amazing/weird feat, because I
> was aware of all the vanity name problems involved with dhcp here
> earlier, and I do have a vanity ip also for my machine, and it *still*
> worked fine, without me having to do any compensation whatsoever for
> the vanity ip.
Well, your hostname is probably still wrong. :) But the name your computer
thinks is its hostname doesn't matter for all that much, so you might not
notice for a while.
Shawn