DNS suddenly broken in Ubuntu VirtualBox
OK, I found a solution here which is to run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf
In the interaction with dpkg-reconfigure
, I answered YES to the first question and NO to the second one. This bug report may be relevant to the problem I had.
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kjo
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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kjo over 1 year
My Ubuntu 12.04 VirtualBox (Windows 7 host) suddenly stopped connecting to remote servers unless I refer to them by their IP addresses.
I'm looking for a way to fix this problem (or at least to troubleshoot it).
NOTE: Neither restarting the VB nor restarting the host machine fixed the problem.
IMPORTANT: The VB has been operating flawlessly since it was set up several months ago. Furthermore, I did not make any changes to the configurations, settings, etc. of either the guest or the host machine in the last several days. (AFAICT, the loss of DNS just happened out-of-the-blue.) Since the configurations of the guest and host machines have been so successful until now, in general I want to stay clear of solutions that would involve changing them. (Of course, this does not apply to configuration files that get modified frequently by automated process, such as
resolv.conf
, since it is not unusual for such a file to become corrupted during normal operation.)FWIW:
My
/etc/network/interfaces
file consists of only the following two lines:auto lo iface lo inet loopback
Furthermore, my
/etc/resolv.conf
file (which is not a symlink to../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf
) has onesearch
line, showing my workplace's network's domain, followed by twonameserver
lines; the hosts corresponding to the IP addresses mentioned in these two lines are both up, according toping
.Just to be clear, I did not create or edit either of these files.
% ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 61:39:ba:21:c7:cc inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: 2fd1::f92:2c24:7735:e9ac/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:946 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:122625 (122.6 KB) TX bytes:96928 (96.9 KB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1380 (1.3 KB) TX bytes:1380 (1.3 KB)