I want to connect to a service running on the host from a container. This is described in the docs here, [image] Explore networking features on Docker Desktop Understand how networking works on Docker Desktop and see the known limitations I start a webserve…

That special hostname has to be in your host file to work. From containers it is handled by Docker Desktop’s internal dns server. I checked my hosts file on my Mac and found this: File:/etc/hosts # Added by Docker Desktop # To allow the same kube context to work on the host and the container: 127.…

Thanks. I added the line 127.0.0.1 host.docker.internal to /etc/hosts and restarted the computer. Still doesn’t work. I’ve got no idea how to fix this. There is nothing on the internet about this problem. How do I trouble shoot something like this?

I think I misunderstood the commands in your first post. I thought you wanted to access a service from the host using host.docker.internal, but you actually tried to acccess it from the container. Adding the domain to the hosts file on your host will not change anything in the container. Now I trie…

Good evening. What do you see in the hosts file? There’s something that looks like? 192.168.192.1 host.docker.internal If not, you need to put that entry in there. But the problem is that every time you start the container it gets a random ip. To overcome this, you need to use a script that wil…

Have a similar problem, but I want to connect to a container running locally from one app to another app. This host.docker.internal is not working only in my mac strangely.

That is a Docker Desktop feature. See this post: [image] Host.docker.internal in production environment General Discussions Once again a question that inspired me to try something. Actually I have been thinking for a while about trying to implement a feature like the one …

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rimelek (Ákos Takács) May 20, 2024, 2:11pm 8

That is a Docker Desktop feature. See this post:

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Connection refused on host.docker.internal

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