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Why can my Virtualbox guest only access internet for a minute, when switching to Bridged Adapter?

Background I am running a Windows Server guest on a Windows host, using Virtualbox. Up until very recently this guest could browse the internet perfectly fine. However, since today, the guest can ...
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Make Windows VirtualBox guest follow Mac host DNS resolution

I already have a custom domain name entry on my Mac's /etc/hosts file that I use for local testing. I'm able to connect from a browser using http://dev.mysite.co:5000. 127.0.0.1 dev.mysite.co 127.0.0....
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VirtualBox doesn't configure DNS for virtual machines in NAT Network mode

I have VirtualBox 5.1.6_Ubuntu r110634 installed on my Ubuntu 16.10 host machine. I set up two virtual machines: MSEdge Windows 10 and Kali linux 2016.2. I set both VMs to NAT Network mode in the ...
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Can a virtual Windows 2012 DHCP server be configured to give IP addresses to physical machines?

I have an internet cafe with A small setup of 5 computers with a generic ISP given router and many customer wireless devices. I need to create a small network. I'm wondering if I installed windows ...
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Why is name resolution slow on my Mac

I have a Linux web server running in VirtualBox and after upgrading to Sierra I found that my sites on the web server are extremely slow to load. It takes minutes. I thought it had to do with ...
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Virtual guest: Unknown host www.google.com

I have Debian 8.6 installed on a virtual guest running in VirtualBox. The network adapter setting is set to Bridged Adapter so that I can access the guest from my LAN. I get an IP(192.168.1.150) ...
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Want to create Bridged network from Windows host to Fedora guest in VBox

I have a Fedora virtual machine in VirtualBox, and I want to use Bridged Network Adapter for Internet connection. What do I have to do to achieve this? I have selected Bridged adapter from the ...
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Windows 7 and VirtualBox (centos 7) DNS not working

I have a windows 7 host and an installation of virtualbox 5.1.4 (with centos 7 on top) for which I am struggling with due to connectivity issues. I setup the VM with the following settings And from ...
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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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Yum results in centos are incomplete?

I have recently installed the centos and i have updated and upgraded the packages and all went pretty good.Now the real problem is whenever i use yum the default package manager to search the reults ...
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Accessing VPN host by name from VirtualBox guest

I have an Ubuntu guest running under VirtualBox on a W10 host with a VPN. I have set up both a host-only adapter and a NAT adapter as recommended in other answers here, and everything works perfectly. ...
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Creating a poor man's DNS/name resolution with VirtualBox NAT network

I am running VirtualBox 5.0.22 on Windows 10 Pro (mikaw10) as host and have set up the following systems all with one NIC and a NAT network called unix-machines: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32 bit (ubuntu1404) ...
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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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Can I point an A class host record to a domain name instead of IP?

I recently registered my first domain name from GoDaddy, and want to point the domain to a website hosted in Azure VM. Azure VMs change their public IP if restarted, so I don’t want to point my host’...
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DNS Server and Client Configuration inside Vagrant VMs?

I have a development environment with 2 VMs running CentOS 7 through vagrant. My provider is VirtualBox. site.dev.cafe is my DNS server, and I believe its configuration is correct and working. On ...
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Why does my hostname resolve to IP of virtual nic and not the physical one?

I've got Virtual Box installed in my Windows 8 computer, and as such I have a few virtual network adapters My problem is that when I do ping sedtdev1510 or programatically resolve the IP , from the ...
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Resolving VirtualBox's DNS through proxy server

My host is OSX and VirtualBox guest is Linux. I enter a socks5 proxy in proxifier and check "Resolve hostnames through proxy". In Safari both my IP address and DNS is changed to whatever remote proxy ...
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Can't access only one web server from only my house [solved]

I was digging around in some settings the other day trying to set up a web server from a Virtual Machine on my computer. Somehow in doing this I managed to make it impossible to access my website, ...
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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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How To Access DNSSEC DNS Server 127.0.0.1 On Mac OS X Host, From VirtualBox Guest Windows XP?

How To Access DNSSEC DNS Server Listening On 127.0.0.1:53 On Mac OSX Host, From VirtualBox Guest VM Windows XP Prof 32-bit ? My host/physical computer machine is an Apple MacBook with Mac OS X (64-...
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Virtualbox Ubuntu - How to make VirtualBox use host's internet

Host: Windows7 Guest: Ubuntu via Virtualbox So I have a proxy on my host because it's a computer at work. However, based on the .pac file that IE has listed, I THINK it requires specific origins for ...
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How does virtualbox get the network configurations?

I am installing CentOS 7 on virtualbox. On "Network & Host Name" screen: When toggle the "OFF" to "ON", I can see the IP, DNS, netmask are all configured: I am curious about how does ...
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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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DNS not functioning on command line

I recently did a combination of Vagrant + VirtualBox stuff on my machine to try to get a virtualized Ubuntu install working. However, I had no luck with it so I just uninstalled everything. Ever since ...
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point multiple ip address to hosting

I have centos server, earlier it had 1 ip [ a.b.c.d ] (external ip , eg., 141.101.114.59). Now, I bought 2 additional ip [b.c.d.e , f.g.h.i] (external ip , e.g, 190.93.244.58 , 130.93.245.8 ). I have ...
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Windows 7 / VirtualBox / VMWare : DNS : local name fails - not even DNS lookup, FQDN works

My problem in short: Entering http://app01:8084/ into the browser does not find my server. Entering http://app01.my.domain.com:8084/ does work. With the localname Wireshark not even captures a DNS ...
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Win Server 2008 DHCP on Virtual Network

I'm new to network stuff. I have 2 virtual computers running in VirtualBox: 1 on Win XP and 1 on Win Server 2008. I'm trying to create a DHCP server and DNS server on my server. I know how to add ...
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How to set up Networking and DHCP in windows server 2012 inside VirtualBox?

Background: Three operating systems are installed inside VirtualBox: Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 8 Pro Windows 8 Enterprise So, I want to set up the Server 2012 R2 as Domain Controller, DHCP, ...
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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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dig not working in a virtual host environment

I have installed three virtual machines (RHEL 6) on virtualbox, and attached a bridged mode network to all machines i have to use my first machine to be a DNS and the second and third machine should ...
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