Is there a way for docker to access host IP

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The host machine has an agent running on port 2000 I would like my docker running on bridge network sent data to the agent on the host machine. What changes do I have to do with the docker to that it can communicate with host,

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '20 at 13:47

If you want to share the entire host network stack with your container you can run it with Host Networking enabled by passing the following argument: --network host.

Documentation Summary: https://docs.docker.com/network/host/

And a tutorial: https://docs.docker.com/network/network-tutorial-host/

Some other options include:

Modifying the iptables rules on the host: iptables -A INPUT -i docker0 -j ACCEPT
Routing all traffic to the docker0 interface.

Is there a way for docker to access host IP

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