diff --git a/testing/cypress.json b/testing/cypress.json
index 9cfd2af3aa62117262622c5c3b23deaf0232126a..e18754fa569e45f439936214f1eb3f676ca702ac 100644
--- a/testing/cypress.json
+++ b/testing/cypress.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    "baseUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:80"
+    "baseUrl": "http://localhost:80"
 }
diff --git a/testing/run_integration_test.sh b/testing/run_integration_test.sh
index 77485126da31b94cff9ce795197adb46b4c51d45..304ff5d59b6fd454f13da84e2a223ce17693e425 100755
--- a/testing/run_integration_test.sh
+++ b/testing/run_integration_test.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ kubectl exec deployment/my-helm-release-ingestor -- ls /var/ingestor/success > s
 kubectl exec deployment/my-helm-release-ingestor -- ls /var/ingestor/fail > failure_list.csv
 
 # client testing
-docker run --name cypress -v ${PWD}:/mnt/ --rm -t --user 1000:1000 cypress/browsers:node16.14.0-slim-chrome99-ff97 bash -c "cd /mnt && npm ci && npm run e2e"
+docker run --name cypress --network host -v ${PWD}:/mnt/ --rm -t --user 1000:1000 cypress/browsers:node16.14.0-slim-chrome99-ff97 bash -c "cd /mnt && npm ci && npm run e2e"
 # fetch logs for ingestor tests
 kubectl logs $(kubectl get po -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingestor -o name | cut -d'/' -f2) > ingestor_log.txt
 # sleep 10  # not sure why we wait here?
diff --git a/testing/test_renderer.py b/testing/test_renderer.py
index 10a6c440e13fce0cb44f522b5db03f5455089f1d..c1380295236708c7d465dc41b2c221c1a73f1bf4 100644
--- a/testing/test_renderer.py
+++ b/testing/test_renderer.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def get_requests(url, service_list, service, request):
 
 def test_renderer(identifiers):
     wms_items = get_requests(
-        'http://127.0.0.1:81/opensearch/collections/Emergency/atom/',
+        'http://localhost:81/opensearch/collections/Emergency/atom/',
         [], 'wms', 'GetMap')
 
     for row in identifiers:
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def test_renderer(identifiers):
 
 def test_wcs(identifiers):
     wcs_items = get_requests(
-        'http://127.0.0.1:81/opensearch/collections/Emergency/atom/',
+        'http://localhost:81/opensearch/collections/Emergency/atom/',
         [], 'wcs', 'GetCoverage')
 
     for row in identifiers: