right. I need to start writing what I do. I remember tinkering around a year ago with this Nokia router as I was daisy chaining routers for another reason
The whole issue was the subnet: I had set it to 255.0.0.0 and never bothered to change it back. When piniging google, it would go to 192.0.0.8, and with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0 of course it would not find google. It was as simple as that.
It’s another story why nord have decided their dns should point to that IP address at all in the first place
Thank you so much for staying with me during this whole process.
I really, REALLY should start making config backups so this does not happen.