Cannot access asus router admin page

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Expected Behaviour:

To be able to access my router admin page through asusrouter.com, router.asus.com or my its IP address. I'm running this from my truenas scale server, and setting the pihole IP for the WAN DNS works allows me to access the admin page perfectly fine, but the moment I set it through LAN (Reccomended by ASUS) it no longer allows me to access the admin page. I also have "routerasus.com" and its IP set in the "DNS Records" tab

Actual Behaviour:

Met with a "refused to connect" message when trying to access through the IP address, and met with " www.asusrouter.com ’s server IP address could not be found." when trying to use the website

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/MiQ0RTaW/

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In order to be able to access your router's web UI, you typically need to use your router's private range IP address.

Likely, your router runs a DNS server that would translate a request for router.asus.com to such a private IP address.

As you've now introduced Pi-hole (at 192.168.50.247:53) to handle DNS, your router's DNS server (at 192.168.50.1:53) isn't considered any more.

Let's check how your router's DNS server replies.
What's the output of:

nslookup router.asus.com 192.168.50.1
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Hey thank you for the reply, I figured that after the I made this post

Here's the output:
Server: RT-AX54HP-15E0
Address: 192.168.50.1

Name: router.asus.com
Address: 192.168.50.1

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The quickest way to address your issue would be to add a Local DNS record associating router.asus.com with 192.168.50.1 via Pi-hole's UI.

Also, you should remove your existing local DNS record for asusrouter.com.

It seems you run your Pi-hole as a Docker container in a Kubernetes cluster?

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Thank you! And yeah my pihole installation is running within truenas scale, so it's running within docker