Speed up Internet access in Vagrant boxes
05 Nov 2014This afternoon I’ve been playing with the Facebook API in a Vagrant box but requests to the API were immensely slow.
The following request would take 5.5221911907196s inside Vagrant:
But on my rMBP the same request took just 0.16792297363281s.
After a bit of Googling around I found that you can tell Virtualbox (through the Vagrantfile) to use the host as the DNS resolver:
After a quick vagrant reload the request took just 0.15842008590698s