[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#464574: Bug#464574: Bug#464574: Bug#464574: virtualbox-ose: No network in

[Patrick Winnertz]

> "Torsten Werner" <mail.twerner at googlemail.com> writes:
> > On Feb 9, 2008 11:23 AM, Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> wrote:
> > ping cannot work with NAT because virtualbox would have to run as
> > root.
>
> Ok, I understood the NAT used in virtualbox and found the problem,
> thanks for the hint. (I was incorrectly relying on ping)
>
> The problem is that in my resolv.conf the first line was invalid, as in
> the upgrade bind9 got uninstalled. My resolv.conf was like
>
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> domain ls.fi.upm.es
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> nameserver $exteranl
>
> It seems that virtualbox NAT can only use the first line of resolv.conf
> for dns servers, thus dns started to fail in the guests.
>
> I reinstalled my caching dns server:
>
> $ host babel.ls.fi.upm.es localhost
> Using domain server:
> Name: localhost
> Address: 127.0.0.1#53
> babel.ls.fi.upm.es has address 138.100.12.136
>
> and the setup wasn't working, but I figure this is because bind by
> default listens to local connections. Once I tried setting up a correct
> first nameserver line, the virtual machines are working again.

Thanks for tracking it down.

Greetings
Winnie

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