@SteveITS I messaged my wife to ask her if any internet events had happened today and said, literally this second. I was connected to the VPN and working on the pfsense AS i texted her. I immediately refreshed the DNS Resolver log and pasted them here:
https://pastebin.com/jDipsG94
nothing interesting in the General or DHCP logs that i could tell. After pasting I raced to open a webpage to see if I was having issues. I typed 2 random words into google and opened the first link and it opened fine. I'm so perplexed.
In the meantime, since I'm so stumped. I'm working on updating to 2.7.2. I found this post @Gertjan referenced at some point. the command line suggestions early on the post seem to have gotten me in the right direction cause I'm now seeing this instead of "up to date", but clicking on update within the GUI or option 13 while ssh'ed into the pfsense both result in failure. I'm now realizing there's a bit more to the thread so I'm gonna see if there was anything further I missed but just want to document my current efforts. If anyone has any idea what this failure means, i'd love to know, thanks!
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