Local hostnames showing as pi.hole

Local clients are showing the name pi.hole in the user interface and query logs. This seemed to happen since the last FTL update but I cannot pinpoint exactly when. Prior to the issue, just the client IP addresses were shown in query logs and the stats homepage.

Pihole is a Raspberry Pi 5 running the latest updates of Raspberry Pi OS. It is set up with a static IP and is the sole DNS configuration in my router. Pihole is not configured as a DHCP server. DNS forwarding is also disabled for local networks.

Cloudflared is configured at localhost:5053 and is configured to use DoH to OpenDNS. Pihole is configured to use this upstream DNS.

Hosts file at /etc/hosts is at the default.

Local DNS entries are only a few systems and none are named pi.hole.

PIVPN is configured as well using Wireguard.

I saw another user on the PiHole subreddit with the same issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/1e4v1xb/pihole_clients_all_show_as_pihole_instead_their_ip/

Expected Behaviour:

Only IP addresses or defined DNS names from Local DNS is shown.

Actual Behaviour:

Local network clients are given the name as pi.hole while some are still showing IP addresses.

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/STgr4SyJ/

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Disabled query logging, cleared logs, flushed Network table, restarted DNS and enabled query logging. All names are now showing IP addresses and the specifically defined names now as expected.

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