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I'm using VirtualBox on Windows 7 (host) to run a FreeBSD (guest) based web server. I`ve assigned a static ip of 192.168.80. 1 to the (virtualized) NIC which is run in bridged mode. The problem is that when I ping an external server (such as google.com) I get a No route to host error:

dimetro# ping google.com
PING google.com (66.249.90.104): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
...

I can ping the BSD server from both another virtualized machine and my host machine and from the server, I can ping everything on the network. The router ip is 192.168.1.1/16.

ADDENDUM: I have the following lines in /etc/rc.conf on the BSD VM to configure networking:

defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.80.1 netmask 255.255.0.0"
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What is your IP configuration for the FreeBSD VM? Specifically, what is the default gateway and netmask set to? – heavyd Mar 2 '10 at 15:06
I've edited my question with that info. – gvkv Mar 2 '10 at 15:45
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Solved. I didn't add the domain of the BSD VM to /etc/hosts. What I don't understand is why I need to. If I configured the NIC using dhclient, I don't need to specify the host in /etc/hosts.

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I don't see why that should matter, either, for the problem you described. Should you have a similar problem in the future, netstat -rn will display the routing table, which will help with the diagnosis. – coneslayer Apr 9 '10 at 15:53
That's good to know. Thanks. – gvkv Apr 14 '10 at 11:41
dhclient will set the hostname using the response from the dhcp server. – Majenko Apr 7 '11 at 8:43
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