CentOS VirtualBox 5 second latency on http requests

Question

I\'m running centos 6.3 inside of VirtualBox 4.2.1 on my OSX 10.8.2 machine, and have encountered a latency issue I do not comprehend. Basically, every http request to anywhere

Answer 1

Ok, it turns out the issue was a DNS issue.

Basically the CentOS VirtualBox was configured to use a 10.0.2.3 DNS server that was internal to itself, but maybe conflicted with something on our network.

In any case, using a different DNS server resolved the issue.