# An alias for the node.name settings
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/an-alias-for-the-node-name-settings/326082
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 21, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/an-alias-for-the-node-name-settings/326082 "2023-02-21T14:50:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Roberto\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roberto_B)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/an-alias-for-the-node-name-settings/326082/1 "2023-02-21T14:50:47Z")
Hi all,
it could be a strange question, but i need to have an alias for the same host in the cluster, for example:
if i have a host with node.name: host1 I would like to have an alias for the same host like: "[host1.fake.org](http://host1.fake.org)" (the real name FQDN of host1 is not [host1.fake.org](http://host1.fake.org) but [host1.real.org](http://host1.real.org))
Is it possible by you point of view?
KR
Roberto
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/an-alias-for-the-node-name-settings/326082/2 "2023-02-21T15:09:41Z")
I'm not sure this is related to Elasticsearch and what is the real issue.
The `node.name` can be anything, it doesn't need to be the same as the host name, but you can only have one `node.name`.
If you want that your elasticsearch responds to requests for `host1`, `host1.fake.org` or `host1.real.org` this is unrelated to elasticsearch, it is a DNS issue that depends on your operating system.
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### Author:  [@Roberto\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roberto_B)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/an-alias-for-the-node-name-settings/326082/3 "2023-02-21T16:52:40Z")
So node.name is not used by ES to resolve it !(ES do not perform an DNS request to resolve the node.name if i use FQDN)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/an-alias-for-the-node-name-settings/326082/4 "2023-03-21T16:53:19Z")
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