[SOLVED] No internet - DNS resolution is not working

cmonty14

Well-Known Member
Mar 4, 2014
343
5
58
Hi,

I have installed Proxmox VE 3.3 on a bare metal PC.

The interface configuration is this:
Code:
root@proxmox1:/etc/apt# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.10
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.0.1
        bridge_ports eth0
        bridge_stp off
        bridge_fd 0

Code:
root@proxmox1:/# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:9c:c2:f7
          inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2281388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1801639 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:472034264 (450.1 MiB)  TX bytes:487168628 (464.6 MiB)

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:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:212910 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:212910 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:93460747 (89.1 MiB)  TX bytes:93460747 (89.1 MiB)

tap100i0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 72:5f:47:df:f7:11
          inet6 addr: xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:26924 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
          RX bytes:74142 (72.4 KiB)  TX bytes:2978665 (2.8 MiB)

venet0    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet6 addr: fe80::1/128 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmbr0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:9c:c2:f7
          inet addr:192.168.0.10  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2243082 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1786671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:433063058 (413.0 MiB)  TX bytes:485574977 (463.0 MiB)

I can access WebUI, and SSH is working fine.
But I cannot load any internet page because DNS resolution is not working.

traceroute is working fine:
Code:
root@proxmox1:/# traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  7.021 ms  7.000 ms  6.980 ms
 2  78.42.140.1 (78.42.140.1)  22.787 ms  22.863 ms  27.906 ms
 3  172.30.21.53 (172.30.21.53)  14.633 ms  17.070 ms  17.055 ms
 4  84.116.191.53 (84.116.191.53)  16.652 ms  11.283 ms  11.334 ms
 5  * * *
 6  209.85.251.150 (209.85.251.150)  15.053 ms 209.85.253.244 (209.85.253.244)  15.229 ms  16.559 ms
 7  72.14.234.235 (72.14.234.235)  17.158 ms 209.85.251.246 (209.85.251.246)  12.763 ms 72.14.234.233 (72.14.234.233)  12.404 ms
 8  209.85.241.228 (209.85.241.228)  42.927 ms 209.85.240.142 (209.85.240.142)  41.610 ms 209.85.241.226 (209.85.241.226)  18.388 ms
 9  209.85.254.233 (209.85.254.233)  19.100 ms 209.85.255.73 (209.85.255.73)  24.918 ms 216.239.48.104 (216.239.48.104)  21.310 ms
10  216.239.49.30 (216.239.49.30)  25.807 ms 216.239.49.28 (216.239.49.28)  26.020 ms 209.85.251.25 (209.85.251.25)  29.922 ms
11  * * *

I have then modified /etc/network/interfaces
Code:
root@proxmox1:/etc/apt# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.10
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.0.1
dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1 87.118.100.175
        bridge_ports eth0
        bridge_stp off
        bridge_fd 0
without any success.

What's causing the problem?
And how can I fix it?

THX
 
Last edited:
Hi!

I fixed the issue when completing setup if virtual machine IPFire using virtual interfaces to access internet.

THX