Routing traffic to services outside of the docker network

[TheRealGramdalf]

Rather than using the hostname of a docker image that is on the same network, is it possible to use the LAN ip of another machine that is already hosting a minceraft server? I tried using it, but it wouldn't work properly. Unless I need to expose a port.

[itzg]

The mc-router doesn't care if the referenced backend is a container or not. What output did you get during the attempted backend connection?