Webservices within same container cannot connect with each other

I have one docker container running with multiple service binding to multiple ports

[root@fdae75a620f2 app]# netstat -tulpn
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      -
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      -                                                                 
tcp        0      0 :::10000                    :::*                        LISTEN      -                                      
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*                        LISTEN      -                   
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8890       :::*                        LISTEN      -                   
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8891       :::*                        LISTEN      -                   
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8892       :::*                        LISTEN      -
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8896       :::*                        LISTEN      -                                   
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8897       :::*                        LISTEN      -                   
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8898       :::*                        LISTEN      -
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8899       :::*                        LISTEN      -
tcp        0      0 :::7878                     :::*                        LISTEN      -

The 889* and 7878 are my services. When I expose 7878 to host 0.0.0.0:17878->7878. However, none of the 889* service can POST to the 7878 service. curl also doesn’t work. The response I get is

<body>
  <h1>Gateway Timeout</h1>
  <p>Server error - server 127.0.0.1 is unreachable at this moment.<br><br>Please retry the request or contact your adminstrator.<br></p>
</body>

I just want the 889* services to work with 7878 service. All these are REST webservices.
I have not idea what is going on. What should I be looking at? Thanks!

Which Docker image/s is/are used?