[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#464574: 464574: Can the problem be "nameserver 127.0.0.1"?

Dmitry Kurochkin dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 09:20:57 UTC 2008


Hello.

I am using virtualbox on debian amd64 with windows guest. Host has
pdnsd installed and resolv.conf contains a single line with 127.0.0.1.

I have the same problem as Nelson. Wireshark shows that virtualbox
sends dns requests to 127.0.1.1 instead of 127.0.0.1. But pdnsd
listens to 127.0.0.1 only.
Workaround is to change /etc/hosts hostname line from 127.0.0.1 to
127.0.1.1. And it starts working.

I think there are several questions/problems (not all related to virtualbox):
1. Why virtualbox uses hostname for dns server when nameserver is set
to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf?
2. Why debian has hostname mapped to 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts if there
are services which listen to 127.0.0.1 only (and break)?

Sorry if I have misunderstood something and above does not make sense.

Regards,
  Dmitry





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