# Cant access elasticsearch port from remote machine
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-elasticsearch-port-from-remote-machine/83029
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 20, 2017, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-elasticsearch-port-from-remote-machine/83029 "2017-04-20T10:40:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Pranil\_Ambule](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pranil_Ambule)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-elasticsearch-port-from-remote-machine/83029/1 "2017-04-20T10:40:23Z")
im using elasticsearch 5.1.2 hosted on microsoft server 2008
ip address-100.100.171.207
but im not able to connect to port 9200 using 100.100.171.207:9200
i have also added inbound as well as outbound rule in firewall
And im using default es config file.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-elasticsearch-port-from-remote-machine/83029/2 "2017-04-20T11:58:30Z")
You need to define network.host in the config file
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### Author:  [@Pranil\_Ambule](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pranil_Ambule)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-elasticsearch-port-from-remote-machine/83029/3 "2017-05-01T07:08:00Z")
thanks David.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-elasticsearch-port-from-remote-machine/83029/4 "2017-05-29T07:19:12Z")
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