Accessing host machine as localhost from a Docker container that's also inside a boot2docker vm

Question

Suppose I have a server running on port 8000 on OSX. How can my Docker container access it via localhost:8000? I can\'t change the hostname too as the app in th

Answer 1

Instead of running with --net="host", try --add-host="localhost:192.168.59.3", which is the boot2docker host IP.