Trying to get XP to connect to the internet in a VirtualBox VM.
Doing this for legacy testing and transferring purposes.
I keep getting this error message:
Interestingly, the issue doesn’t occur for sites like bing.com
So… yeah… I don’t know…
edit- pinging in command prompt works fine, weird
same result
if it helps, it’s Service Pack 2 x64
I’m assuming you’ve tried Firefox / same result?
I’d your virtualbox vm using bridge networking?
yeah chrome too
the chrome downloader just fails
idk what that is
Virtualbox on the host machine can act as a router/firewall doing nat and other things; or you can configure your VM networking adapter to act as if it were connected to the same Ethernet network as the host (your host has wired Ethernet/not wifi, correct?)
One thing you could try is to open cmd.exe and type telnet www.google.com 80 and then type GET / HTTP/1.1<enter>Host: www.google.com<enter><enter> and this should get the server to reply with the search home page.
In general I’d be suspicious about overzealous adblockers, and SSL/TLS config on win xp that’s probably ancient.
Another thing you could do is inspect the traffic using Wireshark and spot check for weird browser behavior; but I’m assuming you don’t know how to do that and it might take you a bit of time to be able to tell with confidence what it is you’re looking for in those packet traces and how to read them.
why not just ping?
no idea
If it helps, I’m only getting this issue with XP. Vista and 7 work fine with no issues. I’m thinking it’s something to do with XP’s structure, but I can’t tell what exactly.
Thinking about asking Wendell on this one, but idk if bothering him about this is a good idea
My first thought would be to check the DNS settings. Can you reach the webpage using the IP address rather than URL?
Same result
That’s the same address you would get from a ping command, right?
Yeah it would be.
This would be my next guess, seems as other websites work fine.
no idea where to start with that
looking at updates on this page: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx
not sure if it would be a series of updates or a single update if it is one
@wendell maybe
I would also think it must be a DNS thing. Regardless of the ping test, find the option to specify a DNS manually in the XP install and use
For Cloudflare:
primary 1.1.1.1
secondary 1.0.0.1
For Google:
primary 8.8.8.8
secondary 8.0.0.8 8.8.4.4
Ok, I think I’ve found the problem here.
google.com is using an elliptic curve key (not supported by Windows XP) whereas bing.com is using RSA.
Out of interest try going to google.co.uk, which is using an RSA key, and see if that works.
didn’t work either
What network settings do you have selected in virtual box? Try setting it to bridged, if you dont have tried that already.
Its ssl tickets that are out of date. If you can update SSL to a newer version then you’ll get it fine.
Otherwise just use startpage. I have this issue all the time on real hardware.
Tried that as well, same result
Just the out of the box default settings
Any idea how I’d go about doing that?
Yeah, it’s probably using an ancient version of SSL, not even TLS.
Install Firefox.
