# Adding a node to a cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-node-to-a-cluster/173958>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 26, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-node-to-a-cluster/173958 "2019-03-26T15:25:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-node-to-a-cluster/173958/4 "2019-03-26T23:10:32Z")

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Few things:

Your node is now listening on a given IP. You can't query it using `127.0.0.1`. See the logs to see the http address and port.

It's failing to join the cluster because of an unknown setting or something like this. Not sure what it is.

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