Parallels bridged networking on gentoo (Solved)

[Bobnoxous]

Hi all. I'm running gentoo under parallels. I have no problem with shared networking, which sets up a completely different subnet for the VM, but I want to use bridged so that my VM and mac OS are on the same subnet, so I can share files.

When I boot into windows under parallels using bridged networking, everything works fine, but on gentoo, it gets an IP address, and I can ping other computers on my subnet, but I cannot get out to the internet. Trying to ping yahoo.com gives me an unknown host message.

Maybe this has nothing to do with parallels. I suspect it's some network configuration, but I figured if I got dhcp working, it should get everything it needs. I don't know why that seems to work for shared networking, but not bridged. I'd appreciate any ideas.

Thanks.
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[e.]

It seems your DNS-resolution is not working.

while in shared mode, the guest asks the host, which has a working DNS-lookup.
In bridged mode, somehow this information does not reach the guest.

Please check the file /etc/resolv.conf for a correct nameserver entry.
(This file should be generated/modified by the DHCP client in the guest)

Maybe you need to set some options in your /etc/conf.d/net file in the guest.

Another possible point of failure would be a wrong gateway or an active Netfilter
(check with route -n for the default Gateway or iptables -L -v -t filter for an filter)

Hope this helps.

[Bobnoxous]

Thanks e. You pointed me in the right direction. In /etc/conf.d/net, I had:
dhcp_eth0="nodns nontp nonis"

I got this from someone else's configuration on parallels, and didn't pay much attention. I presume the nodns option is the culprit, but I just commented out the entire line and now it works fine. I really appreciate the help.
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