Certain websites do not load, but load under a VPN connection? DNS settings?

Hey ruff, here are the readouts from the commands you suggested:

From /etc/resolv.conf on fresh boot, don’t know why it’s so large or bold

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# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 192.168.10.1

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ping 192.168.10.1
PING 192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.816 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.00 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.784 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.829 ms
^C
--- 192.168.10.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3015ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.784/0.857/1.001/0.089 ms


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dig www.aljazeera.com
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
;; Connection to 192.168.10.1#53(192.168.10.1) for www.aljazeera.com failed: connection refused.


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curl -v http://www.aljazeera.com/
* Could not resolve host: www.aljazeera.com
* Closing connection 0
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: www.aljazeera.com

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@Alex: here is the traceroute (had to install traceroute first)

traceroute aljazeera.com
traceroute to aljazeera.com (113.29.17.253), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 _gateway (192.168.10.1) 0.982 ms 2.469 ms 2.470 ms
2 router.asus.com (192.168.1.1) 3.197 ms 3.207 ms 3.190 ms
3 10.0.5.1 (10.0.5.1) 4.734 ms 5.300 ms 5.036 ms
4 103.233.225.193 (103.233.225.193) 8.038 ms 8.055 ms 8.424 ms
5 * * *
6 te2-3.bqueedist02.aapt.net.au (203.131.62.24) 21.355 ms 16.509 ms 16.955 ms
7 te0-3-1-0.bforvcore01.aapt.net.au (202.10.12.21) 18.101 ms 18.520 ms 18.515 ms
8 te0-0-1-0.sclarcore01.aapt.net.au (202.10.10.69) 19.043 ms 19.453 ms 19.455 ms
9 po11.sclardist01.aapt.net.au (202.10.12.2) 18.033 ms 18.360 ms 18.319 ms
10 bu8.sclarbrdr11.aapt.net.au (202.10.14.23) 18.597 ms 18.825 ms 16.785 ms
11 syd-optus.gw.aapt.net.au (203.8.183.45) 16.782 ms 17.364 ms 17.468 ms
12 * * *
13 59.154.142.40 (59.154.142.40) 17.738 ms 17.732 ms 59.154.142.42 (59.154.142.42) 17.937 ms
14 220.101.73.30 (220.101.73.30) 130.903 ms 130.926 ms 131.788 ms
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