Support hostnames and domains in PIHOLE_DNS_

Feature Requests Implemented
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This is a follow up to Start: Support hostnames and domains in PIHOLE_DNS_ by networkException · Pull Request #816 · pi-hole/docker-pi-hole · GitHub docker

Currently the docker configuration does not allow for a hostname or domain in the pihole dns configuration. Technically DNS servers are never domains but in some cases the ip of a domain might want to be used as the DNS server. In particular a docker-compose stack would benefit from this feature:

services:
    pihole:
        image: pihole/pihole
        hostname: pihole        
        depends_on:
            - dnscrypt        
        ports:
            - 53:53/udp
        environment:
            PIHOLE_DNS_: dnscrypt

    dnscrypt:
        image: #...

By resolving the ip of "dnscrypt" on startup, pihole could now use the dnscrypt container as a DNS server.

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@PromoFaux Could you check this out?

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There is an upstream PR to dnsmasq which would implement this feature

https://github.com/pi-hole/dnsmasq/pull/9

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This has been part of
https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/pull/1469
and is released with

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Sorry, I never saw this tag/topic!

However, this has actually been a part of the docker image since around March of this year:

https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/pull/1014

Though maybe with this new code in FTL/dnsmasq, we can change that up a little

Edit:

Ah, yes, @networkException is aware - from the linked PR:

Thanks a lot for implementing this! I can finally decomission my patched start.sh then :sweat_smile: