Docker 1.10 access a container by its hostname from a host machine

As answered here there is a software solution for this, called DNS Proxy Server. $ sudo ./dns-proxy-server $ docker run –rm –hostname nginx.dev nginx $ ping nginx.dev PING nginx.dev (172.17.0.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 172.17.0.4 (172.17.0.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.0.4 (172.17.0.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms

Restrict Internet Access – Docker Container

As found here, I got this to work with docker-compose. Save as docker-compose.yml: version: ‘3’ services: outgoing-wont-work: image: alpine networks: – no-internet command: ping -c 3 google.com # will crash internal-will-work: image: alpine networks: – no-internet command: ping -c 3 internal-and-external internal-and-external: image: alpine networks: – no-internet – internet command: ping -c 3 google.com networks: … Read more

From inside of a Docker container, how do I connect to the localhost of the machine?

Edit: If you are using Docker-for-mac or Docker-for-Windows 18.03+, just connect to your mysql service using the host host.docker.internal (instead of the 127.0.0.1 in your connection string). If you are using Docker-for-Linux 20.10.0+, you can also use the host host.docker.internal if you started your Docker container with the –add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway option. Otherwise, read below TLDR … Read more