Use Case Question: IPAD booting and knowing where to connect on a DHCP LAN ?

[joeblew99]

Would appreciate suggestions for this.

I am on a LAN, and have zero control over the router. SO everything boots up and the router gives devices IP, and runs DHCP.

So i have a server on the lane, and i need the IPAD to be able to use Domain name like "http://backend.local.project-x.org" and it must call the backend server on say "192.168.1.100".

So kind of trying to work this out....
How do i get the IPAD to look at the local SKYDNS to do its DNS Resolution ?
Could i run a DHCP server i control (there are golang ones), and it tells the IPAD to use my SkyDNS ? This would do the trick i think, because the user types the domain name in, and the skyDND woudl tell it the resolved IP to use. Job done ?