Virtual Network Editor and No Internet Access

Question

I am trying to figure out the reason a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine (VMWare Workstation 12.5) with Active Directory and DNS roles is complaining about No Internet Access (with an exclamation mark superimposed over the network icon in the Windows taskbar)... even though I am able to access Internet .

Using Virtual Network Editor, I enabled a Virtual Network Adapter VMNet8 with following properties:

• Type: NAT
• Subnet address of 192.168.153.0
• Gateway IP is set by default to 192.168.153.2

In the VM, following properties are set on the single network adapter:

• Static IP of 192.168.153.15
• subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
• Default gateway is 192.168.153.2
• Preferred DNS server is 127.0.0.1 (loopback address)
• Computer belongs to contoso.local domain (established by AD setup)

Under DNS settings, I set up a forwarder specifying IP address 192.168.153.2 (same as gateway IP of virtual network adapter VMNet8 ). Without this forwarder, name resolution does not work but I can still access the Internet using IP addresses (instead of FQDNs).

Answer 1

You do not need to forward your dns queries to gateway. Normally dns doesn't need forwarders for this situation. It has own records for local ip's and root hints for public ip's. Try this; forward your queries to 8.8.8.8 and see if it works.