Access host (not vm) from inside container

It appears to me like the whole point of this docker native is to make it feel like xyhve/hyper-v are not really there, and you’re clearly going through a lot of network and filesystem shenanigans to get us there, which is great.

But if I run a container and can’t simply “curl http://myhost.local” in some sane way, you’re cutting off how a whole segment of developers need to work.

Elaborate hacks and manual processes are essentially one-off and won’t be accepted as a mainstream solution, which makes it a barrier to entry as a every day workplace tool

It honestly can’t be that hard to accomplish this, we’re just talking about forwarding some packets at the end of the day… Compared to the filesystem work, this should be a piece of cake (I would imagine)

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