revServer vs reverse proxy - I need some clarification

Not at all.

They are completely unrelated.

Reading your comment it is clear you already know what a reverse proxy is.

revServer is a Pi-hole option used to configure reverse DNS servers used by Conditional Forwarding:

When this option is set and Pi-hole needs to know the name of a local client, Pi-hole will send a request to the local reverse DNS server and the server will answer with the hostname.

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