Accessing host machine from within docker container

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Building on @mikehaertl’s response, on OSX, I was able to add an alias for my loopback adapter:

sudo ifconfig lo0 alias 172.16.222.111

Then in docker run, I used:

--add-host my.private.dnsname.com:172.16.222.111

This workaround enables docker-to-localhost connectivity on OSX’s docker as of 17.06.

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