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Virtualbox DNS stopped working on upgrade to 12.10

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I have a Debian image setup on Virtualbox that uses the default NAT to access the internet. It was working fine before I upgraded to 12.10. After I upgraded the DNS lookups no longer work. I still can access ip addresses, but this is not a nice solution.

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answered 3 Years ago rcraftemur · Accepted Answer

Got it

VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --natdnsproxy1 on

Virtual box has a DHCP server for the NAT engine. Which has a list of registered DNS servers. The above command hides this DNS server list and use the host's resolver settings, thereby forcing the VirtualBox NAT engine to intercept DNS requests and forward them to host's resolver