Access docker container from host using containers name

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There is a opensource application that solves this issue, it’s called DNS Proxy Server, here some examples from official repository

It’s a DNS server that solves containers hostnames, if could not found a hostname that matches then solve it from internet as well

Start DNS Server

$ docker run --hostname dns.mageddo --restart=unless-stopped -p 5380:5380 \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v /etc/resolv.conf:/etc/resolv.conf \
defreitas/dns-proxy-server

It will be set automatically as your default DNS (and recover to the original when it stops)

Creating some containers for test

checking docker-compose file

$ cat docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
  nginx-1:
    image: nginx
    hostname: nginx-1.docker
    network_mode: bridge 
  linux-1:
    image: alpine
    hostname: linux-1.docker
    command: sh -c 'apk add --update bind-tools && tail -f /dev/null'
    network_mode: bridge # that way he can solve others containers names even inside, solve nginx-2, for example

starting containers

$ docker-compose up

Solving containers

from host

nslookup nginx-1.docker
Server:     13.0.0.5
Address:    13.0.0.5#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   nginx-1.docker
Address: 13.0.0.6

from another container

$ docker-compose exec linux-1 ping nginx-1.docker
PING nginx-1.docker (13.0.0.6): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 13.0.0.6: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.034 ms

As well it solves internet hostnames

$ nslookup google.com
Server:     13.0.0.5
Address:    13.0.0.5#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   google.com
Address: 216.58.202.78

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