Cannot make outbound HTTP Requests from vagrant VM

Question

I am unable to connect to the internet from within a Vagrant virtual machine I have set up.

For example, at the root, when I type:

curl http://google.com         


        

Answer 1

This looks like a DNS configuration issue. Do a nslookup google.com and see what the result is.

Try to add the following block in your Vagrantfile, set --natdnshostresolver1 to on so as to force the VirtualBox NAT engine to intercept DNS requests and forward them to host's resolver

config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|

  vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]

end

BTW: Without vagrant reload, you can directly look into the /etc/resolv.conf inside the VM, can manually set it to the DNS server of your network, most likely it'll work fine.