Home PC's and DNS addresses

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My SBS2008 system is being used at home for educational purposes, and I would
like to let it be the DHCP server for all of my home PC's, but there are
times when the server is down for whatever reason.

One problem this poses is that the single DNS address my SBS doles out via
DHCP is it's address.

I would like the SBS to use it's address as the first DNS address issued,
but also issue my ISP's DNS addresses for the 2nd/3rd entries on each
workstation. My thinking is, and it could be wrong, that if my SBS is
unavailable, the workstations would then use the secondary/tertiary addresses
to access internet resources.

Does this sound right? And if so, what would I need to do to configure this
behavior on the SBS DHCP server?

Thanks.
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