Debian guest on VirtualBox with bridged adapter has no internet access - linux

I have setup a Debian guest and I am messing around with it to learn more about VirtualBox, Debian, and later after that is done I'll be messing around with a NodeJS server on it.
After a while I noticed I couldn't do some things with it when I had a Bridged adapter setup for the VM. NPM would not install packages because it timed out. I tried running "w3m google.com" and even looked up google.com's ip to check for a DNS issue.
No matter what, I cannot connect to any form of internet. But I can ping anything just fine. I can ping google, npmjs.org, etc.
Thanks for the assistance.
Update: I have been working on this more today, Newer router, asus, I read that people were having issues with belkin routers with bridged adapters so I switched, the asus is new anyways.
The host is connected via ethernet wire.
The VM shows up on the router just fine, And I connect to that device with the IP given by the router just fine. but I still cannot connect to google.com or anything.

This is too long to explain in a comment. Below is how the bridged adapter works.
Yet, if you can ping from the guest debian that means some form of DHCP happened and you must have and IP (which is a different IP from the host machine). I'd check router configuration to see if you're not allowing/disallowing specific MACs and/or IPs from the usage of TCP/UDP protocols (that is a measure some people use on their routers).
Bridged adapter
A bridged adapter on VirtualBox simulates as if there was a bridge (well it is easier to think of this as a hub) on the cable connection to your (host) actual machine. Even if the connection is over wireless the simulation is similar.
For (almost) all purposes the guest (debian) and the router the host machine is connected to are connected directly. Have separate MAC, separate IP, they even give separate ARP requests.
router <---> host machine running VirtualBox
^
|
+-----> guest machine running Debian
This is done by sending packets with a different hardware address (you can configure the hardware address in the adapter).
You need to configure the guest system (Debian) to connect to the network as if it was a separate machine. For example, if you use a WPA connection from the host machine you need to configure WPA (including the username and password) in the guest machine.

I am not an expert, but after some research I could solve a similar problem. I have a Mac hosting a Debian server. I used Bridged Adapter on interface en0 in my Mac.
1) My Mac is running on 192.168.10.101. I know that because I run the command:
ifconfig -a
and the interface en0 shows that IP
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 6c:40:08:98:72:4c
inet6 fe80::6e40:8ff:fe98:724c%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.10.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
2) Running netstat command at my Mac:
netstat -nr
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 192.168.10.1 UGSc 296 142 en0
I see that the Mac Gateway is on 192.168.10.1
3) Mac and Debian must be in the same segment as the Gateway, I mean 192.168.10.xxx. So I decided that my Debian must run on the static IP 192.168.10.115.
I edited /etc/network/interfaces file at my Debian server to look this way:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.10.115
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.10.1
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 192.168.10.1
Then I did ping from my Mac and ping from my Debian and they answered Ok. I also have access to internet from Debian, because I have the same Default Gateway as my Mac.
root#debian64:/home/myuser# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default TEW-711BR 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
I hope it helps and if anybody have better explanations I would like to learn.

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Why? The aim of this adventure is establish a virtual network between several virtual machines and the system hosting the virtual bridge an the virtual machines (host).
auto lo
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auto eth0
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ip route
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...
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# check
ip route
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Hint:
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_bridge

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If I test my Client and Server application on two separate PC which are in same subnet it works fine .
Since I can not run always on two PCs during testing of my application, I thought of using the virtualbox to run the another OS to run my server application .
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# The host-only network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.56.101
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.56.0
broadcast 192.168.56.255
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Every thing works fine until I restarted my server. Now I could only access the linux server via the first IP address.
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