Standalone DNS resolver?

My router is a Mikrotik, so there are a couple of problems:

RouterOS has a bug: if you enable DoH it stops allowing DNS regex (which allows me to pass requests for my home lab AD domain to the AD domain controllers). So I can't use DoH on my router.
It can't run the ctrld agent so won't be able to report individual clients from inside my network (which is what I want).

So... how do I setup a couple of DNS resolver VMs that all my clients can point to, and the resolver VMs would run the ctrld agent thus giving me the per-internal-client control that I want? It's not clear what role the ctrld agent plays? I've installed it on a clean VM and it connects (I can see it on the web console), but it doesn't resolve DNS queries for anything on my network.

Thanks!