Unable to get Docker Registry to work locally, works remotely - linux

Question

Summary
I've set up a registry container on a Debian host running on the default port 5000.
The Debian host runs as a virtual machine on top of a VMWare system. Port 5000 is open.
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --name registry --restart=always registry:2
I then tagged an image for pushing to the registry
docker tag test-image localhost:5000/kp/testing:1.0.0
and tried pushing it
docker push localhost:5000/kp/testing:1.0.0
but it fails with Get http://localhost:5000/v2/: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers).
The output from the registry container comes up empty. As if the request never reaches it.
What I tried
I then tried to cURL the _catalog endpoint and it just gets stuck when receiving response headers, the connection itself seems to be successful.
curl -v http://localhost:5000/v2/_catalog
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 5000 (#0)
> GET /v2/_catalog HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:5000
> User-Agent: curl/7.52.1
> Accept: */*
>
I also tried creating a hostname for the registry on the host machine and setting that as the registry connection address but that ended in the same result.
In addition, I also tried adding the hostname to the insecure-registries array in /etc/docker/daemon.json but still ends with the same error.
I then tried setting it up with TLS using a self-signed certificate. Again, the connection seems to be established in cURL but no response headers are received.
Works remotely
Out of curiosity, I tried accessing it remotely so I cURL'ed the same address with the Debian host IP and it works!
curl -v http://<host-ip>:5000/v2/_catalog
* Trying <host-ip>...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to <host-ip> (<host-ip>) port 5000 (#0)
> GET /v2/_catalog HTTP/1.1
> Host: <host-ip>:5000
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Docker-Distribution-Api-Version: registry/2.0
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 07:30:30 GMT
< Content-Length: 20
<
{"repositories":[]}
To the question
It seems really unrealistic for it to not work locally on Debian as I've set it up using localhost on both a MacOS and an Arch Linux machine. I don't think the VMWare system could be interfering with local connectivity, especially if it works remotely?
Have I missed something which is preventing the registry to be accessible locally?

Answer 1

isnt it need to have mount point -v for storing files in local directory like:
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 -v $HOME/registry:/var/lib/registry registry:2
this way it uses the registry folder in your home directory at /var/lib/registry in the container, which is where the registry in the container will store files by default.