Bind kibana's server.host to multiple interfaces (both localhost and 192.168.0.0/16)

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hi,

I'd like to be able to access kibana by typing in localhost:5601 as well as MACHINE_HOST_NAME:5601.

Elastic can do it easily with network.host: [_site_, _local_]. But I haven't found a way to do this in kibana.

I found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34661210/how-to-bind-kibana-to-multiple-host-names-ips, which suggests 0.0.0.0 but ideally I'd like it to be only bound to localhost and eth0:1, which is 192.168.0.0/16 (private) and not the public IP.

I also cross-posted this here https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/64484.

Please advise.

Thanks.

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hi @archon810

for now, I would track the discussion for the enhancement there https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/64484

In the meantime, perhaps putting a reverse proxy between the user and kibana could help you achieve this: (?YMMV)

e.g.: with nginx, configure listen only for localhost and that private IP:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#listen

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For now I am using 0.0.0.0 and making sure there is a firewall active and blocking access to the outside world, but in the longer term, it'd be good to see the feature implemented without having to resort to reverse proxies.