DNS failing and must run `pihole restartdns`

Expected Behaviour:

dns should not fail and require a restart. Raspbian on rpi 3B+ in docker container

Actual Behaviour:

dns fails and i must run pihole restartdns

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/6cANanNG/

The problem may be that your router (which appears to be routing DNS requests from all clients to Pi-hole) is being rate limited:

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole diagnosis messages
   count   last timestamp       type                  message                                                       blob1                 blob2                 blob3                 blob4                 blob5               
   ------  -------------------  --------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------  --------------------  --------------------  --------------------  --------------------  --------------------
   1       2023-03-02 10:16:51  RATE_LIMIT            192.168.1.1                                                   1000                  60                                                                                    


 -----tail of pihole.log------
   Mar  2 10:20:08 dnsmasq[6123]: config error is REFUSED (EDE: blocked)
   Mar  2 10:20:08 dnsmasq[6123]: Rate-limiting dt.adsafeprotected.com is REFUSED (EDE: blocked)
   Mar  2 10:20:08 dnsmasq[6128]: query[A] dt.adsafeprotected.com from 192.168.1.1
   Mar  2 10:20:08 dnsmasq[6128]: config error is REFUSED (EDE: blocked)
   Mar  2 10:20:08 dnsmasq[6128]: Rate-limiting dt.adsafeprotected.com is REFUSED (EDE: blocked)

Yes this looks likely. nice catch. i found the docs on how to change the rate limiting.

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