diff --git a/network-go/resolver/resolver.go b/network-go/resolver/resolver.go
index 09a6f31..8d4dae3 100644
--- a/network-go/resolver/resolver.go
+++ b/network-go/resolver/resolver.go
@@ -47,13 +47,14 @@ func (r *Resolver) Resolve(name string) []string {
 		}
 	}
 
-		// If no exact match, try stripping dashes from the lookup name
+		// If no exact match, try prefix matching: extract the prefix before the first dash
+	// and match any container/selector starting with that prefix.
+	// This allows "wireguardproxy-client" to match "wireguardproxyclient" (after dash stripping)
+	// or "app-1"/"app-2" to match "app-x".
 	if len(ips) == 0 && strings.Contains(name, "-") {
-		strippedName := strings.ReplaceAll(name, "-", "")
+		prefix := name[:strings.Index(name, "-")]
 		for _, ipCfg := range r.cfg.IPs {
-			strippedContainer := strings.ReplaceAll(ipCfg.ContainerName, "-", "")
-			strippedSelector := strings.ReplaceAll(ipCfg.Selector, "-", "")
-			if strippedContainer == strippedName || strippedSelector == strippedName {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(ipCfg.ContainerName, prefix) || strings.HasPrefix(ipCfg.Selector, prefix) {
 				ips = append(ips, ipCfg.IP)
 			}
 		}