[SOLVED] Windows 8 VMWare guest under Ubuntu 16.04 host doesn't have access to the internet

Windows 8 VMWare guest under Ubuntu 16.04 host doesn't have access to the internet

I have Ubuntu 16.04 host machine with WMWare Player and Windows 8 guest. The problem is that the guest Windows machine doesn't have access to the internet.

Host Ubuntu 16.04 configuration:

>>> grep VERSION= /etc/*-release 
/etc/os-release:VERSION="16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"

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>>> sudo iptables --list
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

>>> sudo ufw status
Status: inactive

VMWare configuration:

> vmware --version
VMware Workstation 12.1.0 build-3272444

virtual network editor vm network configuration

Windows guest machine:

windows version enter image description here windows ipconfig

Testing: enter image description here

Notes:

Note the ping is ok and nslookup hangs. Looks like host machine is stopping the traffic.
I tried ssh into host - ok.
I tried ssh into other machine within the Local lo network of the host - ok
The gateway in the network config is set to 172.16.223.2. I tried to change that to the IP of the host (172.16.223.1) - same results.

Solution

My case was really simple. For some reason VMWare hasn't picked up proper DNS's of the host and 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are blocked within the internal network. Setting DNS servers manually within Windows to the IPs that are allowed within internal network fixed the issue.

I am marking the question as resolved, but if smb posts a solution to fix the VMWare to pick-up the DNS's of the host, I will switch to his answer.