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It's called a secondary DNS server. Like, literally the reason it exists. I guess it's still on the line towards knowing what TF you're doing. Every DHCP server offers at least 2 dns server options.
Setting a second DNS in your router will bypass the pihole though, making it useless unless both servers point to a different pihole server
Kubernetes or Swarm, or a dozen other solutions to this.
Care to elaborate? Last time I tried to set the secondary DNS as backup while keeping the pihole filtrering there was no real way to do it without having two piholes. Even the pihole developers said as much