> "Torsten Werner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Feb 9, 2008 11:23 AM, Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- .''`. Patrick Winnertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : GNU/Linux Debian Developer `. `'` http://www.der-winnie.de http://people.skolelinux.org/~winnie `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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