UniFi - rate-limited

Debug: https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/ULDEUrfL/

Can I please get some guidance around my UniFi/PiHole/Cloudflared configuration.

I'm constantly getting notifications about the router IP being rate limited, however I'm not noticing any service interruptions.

My setup
UniFi performing DHCP - DNS set to PiHole IP.
DNS setting on PiHole set to local cloudflared address (127)
UniFi WAN DNS set to 1.1.1.1

Conditional forwarding has been setup within PiHole.

Your debug log suggests you've configured a DNS loop somehow:

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole log
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 13M Oct 31 07:46 /var/log/pihole.log
   -----head of pihole.log------
   Oct 31 00:00:07 dnsmasq[31744]: query[PTR] 1.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa from 192.168.20.1
   Oct 31 00:00:07 dnsmasq[31744]: forwarded 1.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa to 192.168.20.1
   Oct 31 00:00:07 dnsmasq[31744]: query[PTR] 1.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa from 192.168.20.1
   Oct 31 00:00:07 dnsmasq[31744]: forwarded 1.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa to 192.168.20.1
   Oct 31 00:00:07 dnsmasq[31744]: query[PTR] 1.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa from 192.168.20.1
   Oct 31 00:00:07 dnsmasq[31744]: forwarded 1.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa to 192.168.20.1

Your device at 192.168.20.1 (presumably your router) is sending a reverse lookup for its own IP address to your Pi-hole.
Conditional Forwarding then sends that request back to 192.168.20.1, which in turn sends it to Pi-hole and so on ad infinitum or until timeout.

So your router is using Pi-hole for DNS, which contradicts:

You'd have to find out why your router would send DNS requests to Pi-hole.

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