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I am running the Linux Mint (Cinnamon) 64-bit Live CD with VirtualBox on my Windows 8.1 Host computer.
The guest can ping 63.84.3.27 (Google) just fine, but cannot access the web.
I tried changing the DNS from 'automatic' to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.6.6 and to the default gateway (10.0.2.2) but neither help.
nslookup
fails
What should I do next?
mint@mint ~ $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:35:ec:85
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::ao0:27ff:fe35:ec85/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:593 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2317887 (2.3 MB) TX bytes:71947 (71.9 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:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:1411171017 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1411171017 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:119667293579 (119.6 GB) TX bytes:119667293579 (119.6 GB)
mint@mint ~ $ ping 63.84.3.27
PING 63.84.3.27 (63.84.3.27) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 63.84.3.27: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=119 ms
64 bytes from 63.84.3.27: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=116 ms
64 bytes from 63.84.3.27: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=46.9 ms
^C
--- 63.84.3.27 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 46.921/94.103/119.048/33.382 ms
mint@mint ~ $ netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
0.0.0.0 10.0.2.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
10.0.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
mint@mint ~ $ ip route show
default via 10.0.2.2 dev eth0 proto static
10.0.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.2.15 metric 1
mint@mint ~ $ nslookup google.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Edit:
mint@mint ~ $ ping www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com
mint@mint ~ $ nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.google.com
Address: 63.84.3.23
Name: www.google.com
Address: 63.84.3.24
Name: www.google.com
Address: 63.84.3.27
Name: www.google.com
Address: 63.84.3.25
Name: www.google.com
Address: 63.84.3.26
Name: www.google.com
Address: 63.84.3.22
Name: www.google.com
Address: 63.84.3.21
Name: www.google.com
Address: 63.84.3.20
mint@mint ~ $ sudo cat \etc\resolv.conf
cat: etcresolv.conf: No such file or directory
1first does
nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8
work? what DNS address should your DHCP server be pushing down? what do you get fromsudo cat \etc\resolv.conf
? how did you try to set the DNS server address? it is possible that your router expects you to use it for DNS resolution (masquerading), and is not letting DNS response traffic back to you. – Frank Thomas – 2016-02-20T23:43:53.7171I edited my post with the results of those commands. Also, I set the DNS by going to "Network settings > IPv4, setting "automatic" to "Off", and entering the addresses there. I then issued "sudo ifconfig eth0 down", "sudo ifconfig eth0 up". I'm afraid I don't know what you meant by that last part involving masquerading. – Bort – 2016-02-21T00:02:07.627
It means you router is pretending to offer you dns but is really forwarding your requests to another dns server. – MDMoore313 – 2016-02-21T00:09:00.153