Too many .local domains and "Unknown(12)" status in the log

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The issue I am facing:

Is this pretty much normal behaviour that will get eventually fixed by an update or do I have a unique issue?

I think lately there are too many weird .local domains in the log
and a lot of "Unknown (12) status

DOMAIN.......................................................STATUS
wpad.local.............................. OK (forwarded to IPFire#5353)
isatap.local.................. ........... OK (forwarded to IPFire#5353)
1.debian.pool.ntp.org.local.................... Unknown(12)
push.services.mozilla.com.local.................. OK (forwarded to IPFire#5353)
raw.githubusercontent.com.local.................. OK (forwarded to IPFire#5353)

Details about my system:
Pihole running on Rpi Zero with upstream DNS Unbound/IPFire

What I have changed since installing Pi-hole:
Updated recently

• Pi-hole [v5.2.1]
• **Web Interface v5.2.1
• FTL [v5.3.2]

I didn't want to hijack someone else's topic but I think my issue could be related to this

All requests for *.local are blocked

And a dig <domainname> @PIHOLE_IP output would be helpful. Edit: Using local is not a great idea, Bonjour / mDNS use that as their default domain and that will cause a lot of confusion when you're trying to find out if the domain is for your LAN or if it's from an Apple device that is trying to use multicast DNS.

what would you suggest using instead of " .local "
I have most of my local devices named pihole.local, wifirouter.local and IPFire.local

Only since last 1-2 updates I started to see in the Pihole log some weird domains, so I think I might have an issue

wpad.local OK (forwarded to IPFire#5353)
isatap.local OK (forwarded to IPFire#5353)
1.debian.pool.ntp.org.local Unknown (12)
push.services.mozilla.com.local OK (forwarded to IPFire#5353)
raw.githubusercontent.com.local OK (forwarded to IPFire#5353)

My pihole's only upstream DNS server is IPfire.local#5353 which is Unbound DNS.

The unknown(12) issue looks very similar to this

Unknown(12) in query logs

Expected Behaviour: Pihole resolves the query Actual behaviour: After update to pihole 5.2 en FTL 5.3.1 i get in the query logs "unknown (12)" Debug Token: https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/p4az9kvnhc

[Bucking_Horn]

Observing queries for hostnames appended by your local search suffix is normal.
It has happened all the time before you noticing it now.

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what would you suggest using instead of " .local "

Anything but .local.
Pi-hole's DHCP server uses .lan by default.

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Thank you, I will try .lan

or maybe .lokal