Hi, I guess this is a very general question, but how do i access the localhost of the container itself? I can ping the localhost which i guess is directed to the host, but telnet of localhost returns a connection refused. If the answer is to use --network=host. The second problem that arises is t…

[image] nishantagarwal1990: I guess this is a very general question, but how do i access the localhost of the container itself? 127.0.0.1 (and, I think, the IPv6 address ::1) access localhost of the container itself, which is to say, the container. Right, your container probably isn’t runni…

Thanks for a quick reply. Let me provide more clarity on the question. When i exec into the container any connection I try to make to localhost, it returns a connection refused error. As for the telnet, it is installed, the connection refused error is thrown by it as well. I run the below script as…

[image] nishantagarwal1990: Thanks for a quick reply. Let me provide more clarity on the question. When i exec into the container any connection I try to make to localhost, it returns a connection refused error. Typically containers run only a single process that is running a network service,…

When you say connect to localhost:80, you mean from the host machine or the container? The behavior I am expecting is to find make a connection on localhost inside the container itself. I have exposed few ports e.g. 49000 but those are accessible by the host ip and not localhost on the container.

[image] nishantagarwal1990: When you say connect to localhost:80, you mean from the host machine or the container? If I run it from the host, I expect to get whatever the host has running on port 80 (which could be a Docker container docker run -p 80:....). If I run it from the container, I …

[image] dmaze: sudo docker exec test curl http://localhost:8080 This returns connection refused.

Hi, This is my first post and my English is not that good, so pls do not BASH me… I think you miss the point of “localhost”. As it always points to the actual LOCAL “machine” where it is called, it will try to curl the 8080 port of the container itself this way. If you execute docker inspect tes…

github.com/qoomon/docker-host worked perfectly for me, tested with docker-compose.

Ugh, thank you - I’ve been “not getting this” for a while. This made perfect sense. Now, I see below I can “fix” this by using docker-host and docker compose. Is there another way to forward into the container itself (not the local machine) without using docker compose?

Accessing localhost inside the container itself

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nishantagarwal1990 (Nishantagarwal1990) December 21, 2017, 5:31pm 7

This returns connection refused.

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Accessing localhost inside the container itself

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