# Host network driver — Examples

> The following command starts netcat in a container that listens on port 8000 Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```console $ docker run --rm -it --net=host nicolaka/netshoot nc -lkv 0.0.0.0 8000 ``` Port 8000 will then be available on the host and you can connect to

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The following command starts netcat in a container that listens on port 8000

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker run --rm -it --net=host nicolaka/netshoot nc -lkv 0.0.0.0 8000
```

Port 8000 will then be available on the host and you can connect to it with the following command from another terminal

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ nc localhost 8000
```

What you type in here will then appear on the terminal where the container is running.

To access a service running on the host from the container, you can start a container with host networking enabled with this command

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker run --rm -it --net=host nicolaka/netshoot
```

If you then want to access a service on your host from the container (in this example a web server running on port 80), you can do it like this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ nc localhost 80
```

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