From GPT (I pasted results of some terminal commands to it): Current state
Your /etc/hosts is default (my note, i dont think this is true?) ...
So right now nothing is short-circuiting login.tailscale.com → your system resolver must ask your full DNS chain every time. That’s exactly why ping flips between “works” and “can’t resolve” — you’re at the mercy of how the multiple resolvers in scutil handle the fallback.
Hdsheena
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2025-07-20 20:18:17 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…edt3
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wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2025-07-20 20:18:17 UTCEvent JSON
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