can't ping to jail but jail can ping to internet

[Marco Paterek]

Hello all

I'm new to the whole freenas solution so maybe i'm going to ask a stupid question. Also newby on FreeBSD system.

I want to have a good reliable NAS solution. So i was looking around and came to FreeNAS. I'm willing to get me a new computer which i can use as NAS.
Before i buy this new computer i first wanted to know how freenas works. So i installed VirtualBox from Oracle on my Windows 7 host. And install FreeNAS within VirtalBox.
I followed a tutorial i found on google to setup FreeNAS with torrent and dlna support. (https://www.zufallsheld.de/2013/11/22/freenas-transmission-couchpotato-sickbeard-dlna-server/ )

All went well. but when i try to open my webbrowser and navigate to 1 of the plugins ip it wont connect. However i'm able to ping from within the jail to google.com but when i want to ping from my windows 7 host to the jail it says timeout. When i ping from the freenas itself it works.

Does some of you guys know what is going on here. It seems like a routing issue but i can't figure it out.

All the info i can give you on my setup if you need some specific info i can give it to you.

Host computer is an Intel i7 4,00Ghz with 16GB ram

Configured my Virtalbox with 8GB ram and 1 cpu. Ethernet is bridged.
Using latest version of FreeNAS.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Whattteva]

Be nice if you can give us the actual IP's and routing tables of both the host and the guest.
As of now, you barely gave us anything to work with.

 

[Marco Paterek]

Well i didn't know what went wrong. But i just started my virtualbox on which freenas is running to get all the info you asked for.
then i noticed when i use the jls command to view my jail al my jails came with its ipaddress. So i tried it again and it's working now.

I tried many restarts earlier today but nothing looked to work. And now it has the correct routing. So i guess my problem is solved.

Aperently it looks like earlier reboots of the virtual machine didn't hold the routing for some reason.

 

[oddeypaulo]

I'm guessing the delay in the jail responding to queries is because of some failing reverse DNS lookups. You can try to fix this by enabling BIND on the system / jail by setting:

named_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf of the jail or host, then use the
local IP as DNS server.

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