On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:02 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > That must be new behaviour on 2.2.2 then. > > > > Hmm, but which DNS server should be passed if /etc/resolv.conf > > of the host is empty? Wasn't that the case in earlier releases > > as well? > > The new behaviour that I am positing is that in 2.1.4, VBox gave the > guest it's end of the NAT connection as the IP address of the DNS > server. Antonio is reporting that in 2.2.2 VB is just passing along > what ever address is listed in the Host's resolv.conf as the guest's DNS > server. > > Right now in my Windows XP guest I have: > > IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.2.15 > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . : 10.0.2.3 > DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.2.3 > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.2.3 > > That looks to me like VB is _proxying_ DNS, not simply forwarding it.
Ah right, I forgot that. Did you read chapter 9.14 of the user manual? I think by enabling the DNSProxy the old behavior (well, not exactly but similar) can be restored. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com
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