diff --git a/testinfra/test_mirror.py b/testinfra/test_mirror.py
index 6891898234..dc9609cc48 100644
--- a/testinfra/test_mirror.py
+++ b/testinfra/test_mirror.py
@@ -21,107 +21,52 @@ def test_apache(host):
     apache = host.service('apache2')
     assert apache.is_running
 
-def test_base_mirror(host):
-    # BaseMirror
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ip_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://%s/" % addr)
-        assert '<a href="debian/">' in cmd.stdout
+def _run_cmd(host, port, scheme='https', url=''):
+    hostname = host.backend.get_hostname()
+    return f'curl --resolve {hostname}:127.0.0.1 {scheme}://{hostname}:{port}{url}'
 
-        cmd = host.run("wget -qO- http://%s/" % addr)
-        assert '<a href="debian/">' in cmd.stdout
+def test_base_mirror(host):
+    # base mirror
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 443))
+    assert '<a href="debian/">' in cmd.stdout
+
+    # mirrors still respond on http
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 80, scheme='http'))
+    assert '<a href="debian/">' in cmd.stdout
 
 def test_proxy_mirror(host):
-    # ProxyMirror
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ipv4_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -qO- "
-                       "https://%s:4443/pypi/simple/setuptools" % addr)
-        assert 'setuptools' in cmd.stdout
+    # pypi proxy mirror
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 4443, url='/pypi/simple/setuptools'))
+    assert 'setuptools' in cmd.stdout
 
-        cmd = host.run("wget -qO- "
-                       "http://%s:8080/pypi/simple/setuptools" % addr)
-        assert 'setuptools' in cmd.stdout
-
-    # split the test cases so that we can escape the ipv6 addrs properly
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ipv6_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -qO- "
-                       "https://[%s]:4443/pypi/simple/setuptools" % addr)
-        assert 'setuptools' in cmd.stdout
-
-        cmd = host.run("wget -qO- "
-                       "http://[%s]:8080/pypi/simple/setuptools" % addr)
-        assert 'setuptools' in cmd.stdout
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 8080, scheme='http', url='/pypi/simple/setuptools'))
+    assert 'setuptools' in cmd.stdout
 
 def test_dockerv2_mirror(host):
-    # Dockerv2Mirror
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ipv4_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -O- "
-                       "https://%s:4445/v2/" % addr)
-        assert '401 Unauthorized' in cmd.stderr
+    # Docker v2 mirror
 
-        cmd = host.run("wget -O- http://%s:8082/v2/" %addr)
-        assert '401 Unauthorized' in cmd.stderr
+    # NOTE(ianw) 2022-07 : this gets back a 401 .json; maybe something
+    # better we could do?
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 4445, url='/v2/'))
+    assert 'UNAUTHORIZED' in cmd.stdout
 
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ipv6_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -O- "
-                       "https://[%s]:4445/v2/" % addr)
-        assert '401 Unauthorized' in cmd.stderr
-
-        cmd = host.run("wget -O- http://[%s]:8082/v2/" %addr)
-        assert '401 Unauthorized' in cmd.stderr
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 8082, scheme='http', url='/v2/'))
+    assert 'UNAUTHORIZED' in cmd.stdout
 
 def test_quay_mirror(host):
     # QuayRegistryMirror
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ipv4_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -qO- "
-                       "https://%s:4447/" % addr)
-        assert 'quay' in cmd.stdout
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 4447, url='/'))
+    assert 'Quay' in cmd.stdout
 
-        cmd = host.run("wget -qO- http://%s:8084/" % addr)
-        assert 'quay' in cmd.stdout
-
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ipv6_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -qO- "
-                       "https://[%s]:4447/" % addr)
-        assert 'quay' in cmd.stdout
-
-        cmd = host.run("wget -qO- http://[%s]:8084/" % addr)
-        assert 'quay' in cmd.stdout
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 8084, scheme='http', url='/'))
+    assert 'Quay' in cmd.stdout
 
 # TODO test RHRegistryMirror
 
 def test_galaxy_mirror(host):
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ipv4_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run(
-                "wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://%s/galaxy/" % addr)
-        assert 'Ansible Galaxy' in cmd.stdout
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 443, url='/galaxy/'))
+    assert 'Ansible Galaxy' in cmd.stdout
 
-        cmd = host.run("wget -qO- http://%s/galaxy/" % addr)
-        assert 'Ansible Galaxy' in cmd.stdout
+    cmd = host.run(_run_cmd(host, 80, scheme='http', url='/galaxy/'))
+    assert 'Ansible Galaxy' in cmd.stdout
 
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -O- "
-                "https://%s/galaxy/download/community-general-4.0.2.tar.gz" %
-                addr)
-        assert '/galaxy-s3/artifact/' in cmd.stderr
-
-        cmd = host.run("wget -O- "
-                "http://%s/galaxy/download/community-general-4.0.2.tar.gz" %
-                addr)
-        assert '/galaxy-s3/artifact/' in cmd.stderr
-
-    for addr in host.addr(host.backend.host).ipv6_addresses:
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -qO- "
-                "https://[%s]/galaxy/" % addr)
-        assert 'Ansible Galaxy' in cmd.stdout
-
-        cmd = host.run("wget -qO- http://[%s]/galaxy/" % addr)
-        assert 'Ansible Galaxy' in cmd.stdout
-
-        cmd = host.run("wget --no-check-certificate -O- "
-                "https://[%s]/galaxy/download/community-general-4.0.2.tar.gz" %
-                addr)
-        assert '/galaxy-s3/artifact/' in cmd.stderr
-
-        cmd = host.run("wget -O- "
-                "http://[%s]/galaxy/download/community-general-4.0.2.tar.gz" %
-                addr)
-        assert '/galaxy-s3/artifact/' in cmd.stderr