Troubleshooting monerod, pauses at 2688969 finds no new blocks
Initial blockchain sync on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. Using monero-gui-v0.18.3.1

monerod synced over 48 hours till hitting height 2688969 then paused for about 10 hours finding no new block candidates.
I searched monero.fail at this time and several failed nodes were also displaying top block height of 2688969. 

I am running monerod from the monero-gui file with terminal and no additional arguments. Since repeated restarts saw no change (even with adding in --db-salvage argument) I tried syncing the rest of the way with the GUI and it noticed additional block height and then continued syncing immediately upon startup. 

Are there different lists of peers to attempt sync with when running GUI or just the monerod daemon?