arch virtualbox

If you're running Arch Linux in VirtualBox on a Windows XP host and you're networking in Arch does not seem to work (although it worked perfectly the last time you checked), do not assume that there's something wrong with dhcpd - it might be a DNS related-issue. Apparently, VirtualBox ignores all DNS servers configured in Windows except for the preferred server, which in my case didn't work because it wasn't recursive. Ping might let you down - it may or may not work in VirtualBox if it uses NAT networking (default setting). Solution - make sure that the first DNS server configured in TCP/IP preferences dialog is a recursive DNS server, i.e. a real DNS server and not dnsmasq, for example.