@yubiuser You're still on the branch tweak/more_resolve_details, right?
I did a modification to the internal FTL resolver than may work even without 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf.
It may not be the final solution, however, it is something worthwhile testing I've found whilst digging deeply through the Linux network security services (nss).
I'd highly appreciate any testing on this.