@jaybo, you've got two posts going in parallel. i'm going to answer you in the other one, since that has more detail:
To address your comment about hesitation to change the resolv.conf symlink, just make a note of where it is pointing originally. In my case, that was /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf. From other comments, I believe this is the default. If you change the symlink and your system doesn't work as you wish, then just return the symlink to the original location, and you're back where you started.