diff --git a/api/client/run.go b/api/client/run.go
index 628e725f1b..ff0e534c67 100644
--- a/api/client/run.go
+++ b/api/client/run.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/opts"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/promise"
-	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/resolvconf"
+	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/resolvconf/dns"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/signal"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/runconfig"
 )
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ func (cli *DockerCli) CmdRun(args ...string) error {
 		// localhost regexp to warn if they are trying to
 		// set a DNS to a localhost address
 		for _, dnsIP := range hostConfig.Dns {
-			if resolvconf.IsLocalhost(dnsIP) {
+			if dns.IsLocalhost(dnsIP) {
 				fmt.Fprintf(cli.err, "WARNING: Localhost DNS setting (--dns=%s) may fail in containers.\n", dnsIP)
 				break
 			}
diff --git a/pkg/resolvconf/dns/resolvconf.go b/pkg/resolvconf/dns/resolvconf.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c2f23ef34a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/resolvconf/dns/resolvconf.go
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package dns
+
+import (
+	"regexp"
+)
+
+const IpLocalhost = `((127\.([0-9]{1,3}.){2}[0-9]{1,3})|(::1))`
+
+var localhostIPRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(IpLocalhost)
+
+// IsLocalhost returns true if ip matches the localhost IP regular expression.
+// Used for determining if nameserver settings are being passed which are
+// localhost addresses
+func IsLocalhost(ip string) bool {
+	return localhostIPRegexp.MatchString(ip)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/resolvconf/resolvconf.go b/pkg/resolvconf/resolvconf.go
index 5707b16b7f..907934c5c5 100644
--- a/pkg/resolvconf/resolvconf.go
+++ b/pkg/resolvconf/resolvconf.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/ioutils"
+	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/resolvconf/dns"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -24,10 +25,8 @@ var (
 	// For readability and sufficiency for Docker purposes this seemed more reasonable than a
 	// 1000+ character regexp with exact and complete IPv6 validation
 	ipv6Address = `([0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}:){2,7}([0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4})`
-	ipLocalhost = `((127\.([0-9]{1,3}.){2}[0-9]{1,3})|(::1))`
 
-	localhostIPRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(ipLocalhost)
-	localhostNSRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^nameserver\s+` + ipLocalhost + `\s*\n*`)
+	localhostNSRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^nameserver\s+` + dns.IpLocalhost + `\s*\n*`)
 	nsIPv6Regexp      = regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^nameserver\s+` + ipv6Address + `\s*\n*`)
 	nsRegexp          = regexp.MustCompile(`^\s*nameserver\s*((` + ipv4Address + `)|(` + ipv6Address + `))\s*$`)
 	searchRegexp      = regexp.MustCompile(`^\s*search\s*(([^\s]+\s*)*)$`)
@@ -128,13 +127,6 @@ func getLines(input []byte, commentMarker []byte) [][]byte {
 	return output
 }
 
-// IsLocalhost returns true if ip matches the localhost IP regular expression.
-// Used for determining if nameserver settings are being passed which are
-// localhost addresses
-func IsLocalhost(ip string) bool {
-	return localhostIPRegexp.MatchString(ip)
-}
-
 // GetNameservers returns nameservers (if any) listed in /etc/resolv.conf
 func GetNameservers(resolvConf []byte) []string {
 	nameservers := []string{}