edit2: thanks again everyone, you don't need to check if it's working. apparently I'm blocked from accessing the site, can't see any other explanation. DNS resolves fine, flushed caches, tried private mode, clear cookies, tried everything on my end to rule stuff out, nothing

You might run traceroutes/mtr to see where exactly this is failing. Here's the IP I show in case yours differs:

➜  ~ dig freedns.afraid.org @10.10.0.1 A

; <<>> DiG 9.20.23 <<>> freedns.afraid.org @10.10.0.1 A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51734
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;freedns.afraid.org.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
freedns.afraid.org.	60	IN	A	69.42.215.252

;; Query time: 206 msec
;; SERVER: 10.10.0.1#53(10.10.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 03 14:48:58 CDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63