added mullvad reconnect on dns failure script

.scripts/network_utilities.sh

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+# network utility functions
+
+# get the ip address of the host
+function get_local_ip() {
+		echo -e "The interfaces and IPs are:\n$(ip -o -4 addr show | awk '/inet 192.168|inet 10.|inet 172.16/ {split($4, a, "/"); print $2 ": " a[1] "\n"}')"
+}
+
+function get_public_ip() {
+		public_ip=$(curl -s canhazip.com)
+		echo -e "The public IP is: $public_ip"
+}
+
+function is_dns_working() {
+		dns_working=$(ping -c 1 google.com | grep "1 received" | wc -l)
+		if [ $dns_working -eq 1 ]; then
+				return 0
+		else
+				return 1
+		fi
+
+}
+
+
+function reconnect_vpn_on_dns_failure() {
+		# reconnect vpn if dns is not working
+		if ! is_dns_working; then
+				echo "DNS is not working, reconnecting VPN"
+				mullvad reconnect
+		else
+				echo "DNS is working, no need to reconnect VPN"
+		fi
+}
+

.scripts/updating.sh

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+# script for updating all packages but excluding a list of packages
+
+# set path to list of packages to exclude
+exclude_list_file=~/.setup/packages/exclude_from_updating.list
+
+# load list of packages to exclude
+exclude_list=$(cat $exclude_list_file)
+
+# define function that calls yay update and excludes packages from exclude_list
+
+function update_system {
+    yay -Syu --noconfirm --needed --noprovides --ignore $exclude_list
+}
+
+# also define function that only updates packages from pacman
+function update_pacman_packages {
+    sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm --needed --noprovides --ignore $exclude_list
+}
+