SSL error blocking packages?

Trying a fresh installation moving from 1.6.1 to 1.6.3 and Pkg isn’t able to import any modules. Trying to import plots for example gives the following error:

(@v1.6) pkg> add “Plots”
Installing known registries into ~/.julia
┌ Warning: could not download https://pkg.julialang.org/registries
└ @ Pkg.Types /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/Types.jl:997
┌ Warning: could not download https://pkg.julialang.org/registries
└ @ Pkg.Types /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/Types.jl:997
Cloning registry from “GitHub - JuliaRegistries/General: The official registry of general Julia packages
ERROR: failed to clone from GitHub - JuliaRegistries/General: The official registry of general Julia packages, error: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:SSL, SSL error: 0xffff8e00 - SSL - An invalid SSL record was received)

I’m not sure if the SSL record is the root of the problem or not. Hoping to get around the SSL error I tried setting the environment variable ENV[“JULIA_SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTS”]=“**” based on https://github.com/JuliaLang/NetworkOptions.jl however the error remains.

Any thoughts?