Help Internet MIA

[BJZeak]

XP PRO 3 machine ... using VMWare player 3.1.3 with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Virtual machine ... for several months this has worked out of the box so to speak. Last week I decided to try installing Virtual Box 4.0 because of claims it was faster ... This installed and I created a new Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Virtual machine under that VM ... well it didn't seem any faster so I completely removed this installation ... however now VMP no longer connects to the internet ... I can ping my local machine and the local router but its almost like its missing the Gateway and or DNS settings. I downloaded the 3.1.3 install and did a repair ... even turned off N360 ... still no internet. This appears to default to NAT ... eth0 claims it is connected in Ubuntu ... XP has the NAT VMnet8 connection (it doesn't have a gateway or dns filled in under IP4 ... tried that but it crashed my local windows network)

Anyone know how to reconnect this vm to the Internet?

ifconfig (minus the hw and inet6 address)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
inet addr:192.168.131.128 Bcast:192.168.131.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:524 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:44143 (44.1 KB) TX bytes:49308 (49.3 KB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x1080

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:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3205 (3.2 KB) TX bytes:3205 (3.2 KB)

 

[BJZeak]

Turns out the issue was with the DNS setting within UBUNTU

Not sure how this got changed but once I reset the DNS pointers everything started working again.

Figured this out by pinging an absolute address (bypassing a DNS call)