After looking into it more, another viable solution I found was to simply change the static IP address to another address. However, the main driver behind this is I wanted a static IP address, whereas the accepted answer is for a non-static address. I’ll accept this given no one else has added anything to this thread in the hopes it’ll benefit someone down the road. Mona Jalal Programmer Programmer 8 8 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. The best option is to let it grab an ip automatically from DHCP: dhclient -v This will let centos get an ip automatically. Highest score default Trending recent votes count more Date modified newest first Date created oldest first. I tested changing the IP address to And this seemed to fix the issue Will investigate for other people’s future reference to see what’s blocking xxx. I’ve also tried the following: Made sure the VMnet connection was connected stupid, but had to check I checked the registry of my Windows machine, I only have 1 entry for a default gateway Like I said, this seemed to happen out of the blue. Create a free Team Why Teams? Learn more about Teams.

Stack Overflow for Teams - Start collaborating and sharing organizational knowledge. If you would like another solution, change the network adapter from bridged to NAT, and it’s worked for me. Nt adapter has different ip address in different subnet than your bridged networking which is same as the network your pc is in. Also if you would like to use static ip address, just change the mode to bridge networking and assign the ip address and dns of your network. Nameserver should be the dns server of your network, if its your home router it should be same as your gateway, or just check the network of your pc and assign the same dns address. From what i see, the problem could be you missed setting up dns entries in the vm while setting ip address. Sometimes problem could be in the host machine Windows 10, and VMware workstation 12, for example in my case.

This should work for all OS you install on VMware.

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