Reverse DNS lookup of pi-hole's IP address returns a blacklisted hostame instead of own hostname

Noticed this oddity when troubleshooting an issue on my wife's laptop before

pi-hole is using an edgerouter lite as it's DNS server (192.168.1.1)

Expected Behaviour:

nslookup 192.168.1.14 should return ramen

e.g. when no hosts are in the blacklist:
raab@ramen:~$ nslookup 192.168.1.14
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

14.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = ramen.

Actual Behaviour:

nslookup 192.168.1.14 returns random blacklisted hostame e.g. github.com

raab@ramen:~$ nslookup 192.168.1.14
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

14.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = github.com.

Debug Token:

pcr0oeggc0

This is known and will be fixed in the next release.

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