I went into more detail on this issue in this post.
@jamshid :
I got the feeling the the latest (beta 9) release that maybe NAT won’t be available soon (I may be wrong).
I don’t think that the host’s /etc/hosts gets propagated to the VM (just tested it here and it doesn’t). Anyway the VM hostnet IP is fixed (you can change it with “pinata set network hostnet docker-ipv4=xxx host-ipv4=yyy”).
Yes, I am thinking about a moving team working on a “random” wi-fi. Me myself I carry around with me (sometimes) a Mac Mini OSX Server that does the server juggernaut role.