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Is it possible to have a single IP for a VM in different networks?

I am learning about DNS administration in Linux. And I do it in my office and home. In office my IP range is 10.x.x.x/21 whereas in my home, my IP range is 192.x.x.x/24. Since I am learning DNS by ...
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How to propagate a server's host name on local DNS

I am asking this question because I don't know which network service should do this. I have a lightweight server on my LAN, and its host name is my_server. Now I would like every machine on my local ...
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How to obtain the proxy resolver configuration of a Virtualbox VM

Virtualbox provides two configuration flags to modify the DNS behavior of the NAT engine for a virtual machine: VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --natdnsproxy1 on VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --...
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Bind9 Configuration for domain name by duckdns

I am trying to test out some server stuffs on my debian virtualbox on a windows host. I have configured it to bridged network. And also was able to get duckdns free domain for testing and I can get ...
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DNS Server Emulation using a local test domain name for VirtualBox

I see nginxreverseproxy does not work in Virtualbox as if it will work on a Server. Check this Question. Based on my research I see dns servers are important to manage domain names. So I think if I am ...
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Setup a reverse proxy for a Debian VirtualBox

I had created a debian virtualbox configured with network adapters NAT and Host Only by following article with hostname example and domain example.com. It is working fine. I wanted to use a test ...
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3 answers
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How to access server running in VirtualBox from the host?

I am running a web app on the VM. I can see the app at localhost:8888 via a browser from within the VM. I cannot see the app from the host at the same URL. That is the goal. I tried VBoxManage ...
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Local DNS Resolution Between Host Guest

Inside vbox6.1 on an Ubuntu Desktop host. I have a software requirement for a host-only network adapter with internet access. I was able to configure this and I can successfully ping the guest from ...
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Can Windows Server DNS Manager access websites on the internet, or only local records?

In other words, is the list of records in DNS Manager the entire list, or is this just the extra records defined locally? If so, does it look at this list before searching the internet? From ...
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Why is my Virtual Machine sending MDNS requests in the internal network?

Following setup: Windows 10 host system runs 2 Ubuntu 20.04 Virtual Machines from VirtualBox. Both the VMs have their network adapter set to "internal" mode, which means only an internal ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu guest has NAT, but no TCP connectivity

First of all, I am using these things: Windows 7 host Ubuntu 14.04 guest (just set this up) VirtualBox 5.0.2 Where I'm at now I am having some issues with my networking settings. Everything is at ...
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Installing Ubuntu in Virtual Box ruins my internet connection on Windows 10 computer

After installing Ubuntu in Virtual Box on my W10 box, my internet connection won't stay up for an hour even when neither the VB manager nor Ubuntu is running. Diagnostics: "DNS server isn't ...
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How to get VirtualBox VMs to use host's DNS?

I use VirtualBox for my VMs. My office network setup is wireless, i.e. I connect to my company's WiFi network, which has a local DNS to resolve local names (such as something.mycompany.com going to ...
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Cannot access internet with Ubuntu 19 in VirtualBox?

Hi I installed Ubuntu virtual machine with my company computer, my platform are listed as follow: Host OS: Windows 10 Host Firewall: Mcafee(Company security requirement) Virtual OS: ...
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Chrome & IE can't access local website, while Firefox can. How to debug?

1. Enviroment 1.1 Host machine Windows 8.1 Enterprise Chrome v42.0.2311.152 Firefox v38.0.1 IE v11.0.9600.17031 VirtialBox Vagrant 80 port forwarded to port 80 at guest machine at 192.168.56.101 ...

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