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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
+<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="nat-adv-dns">
+ <title>Enabling DNS Proxy in NAT Mode</title>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>
+ The NAT engine by default offers the same DNS servers to the
+ guest that are configured on the host. In some scenarios, it can
+ be desirable to hide the DNS server IPs from the guest, for
+ example when this information can change on the host due to
+ expiring DHCP leases. In this case, you can tell the NAT engine
+ to act as DNS proxy using the following command:
+ </p>
+ <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage modifyvm <varname>VM-name</varname> --natdnsproxy1 on</pre>
+ </body>
+
+</topic>