# Connection Refused after a while, restarting helps **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 15, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-after-a-while-restarting-helps/66119 "2016-11-15T13:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johanhaest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johanhaest/32/13176_2.png) [@johanhaest](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johanhaest)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-after-a-while-restarting-helps/66119/1 "2016-11-15T13:05:57Z")
Hi, I'm running the following version of elasticsearch on my ubuntu server. ``` curl localhost:9200 { "status" : 200, "name" : "Desmond Pitt", "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch", "version" : { "number" : "1.4.5", "lucene_version" : "4.10.4", .... } } ``` But after a while (sometimes months sometimes days) I get a connection refused on elasticsearch. When i just restart the service, it suddenly works again. But since this runs in production I don't want the elasticsearch service to suddenly break. It runs on localhost (port 9200), on the same server where the rest of the code resides. Running curl localhost:9200 also returns a connection refused. When I look into the logs I see these errors, ES stopped working on ~10:50 when i Restarted at 11:09. The `[WARN][cluster.service] [George Washington Bridge] failed to reconnect to node` seems to constantly appear but has no effect. ```auto [2016-11-15 10:44:48,789][WARN][cluster.service] [George Washington Bridge] failed to reconnect to node [George Washington Bridge][y0XjMTweT-CTRyGtLFObhA][bitnami-nginxstack-50be][inet[/100.114.244.37:9300]] org.elasticsearch.transport.ConnectTransportException: [George Washington Bridge][inet[/100.114.244.37:9300]] connect_timeout[30s] at ... org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientBoss.processSelectedKeys(NioClientBoss.java:105) at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientBoss.process(NioClientBoss.java:79) at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioSelector.run(AbstractNioSelector.java:318) at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientBoss.run(NioClientBoss.java:42) at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.ThreadRenamingRunnable.run(ThreadRenamingRunnable.java:108) at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker$1.run(DeadLockProofWorker.java:42) ... 3 more [2016-11-15 11:09:10,252][INFO][node] [Desmond Pitt] version[1.4.5], pid[33442], build[2aaf797/2015-04-27T08:06:06Z] [2016-11-15 11:09:10,260][INFO][node] [Desmond Pitt] initializing ... [2016-11-15 11:09:10,303][INFO][plugins] [Desmond Pitt] loaded [], sites [] [2016-11-15 11:09:18,785][INFO][node] [Desmond Pitt] initialized [2016-11-15 11:09:18,786][INFO][node] [Desmond Pitt] starting ... [2016-11-15 11:09:19,241][INFO][transport] [Desmond Pitt] bound_address {inet[/127.0.0.1:9300]}, publish_address {inet[/100.114.244.37:9300]} [2016-11-15 11:09:19,338][INFO][discovery] [Desmond Pitt] elasticsearch/2-uc6WDiRwSTwsSXf8jg6A [2016-11-15 11:09:23,185][INFO][cluster.service] [Desmond Pitt] new_master [Desmond Pitt][2-uc6WDiRwSTwsSXf8jg6A][bitnami-nginxstack-50be][inet[/100.114.244.37:9300]], reason: zen-disco-join (elected_as_master) [2016-11-15 11:09:23,461][INFO][http] [Desmond Pitt] bound_address {inet[/127.0.0.1:9200]}, publish_address {inet[/100.114.244.37:9200]} [2016-11-15 11:09:23,462][INFO][node] [Desmond Pitt] started [2016-11-15 11:09:25,327][INFO][gateway] [Desmond Pitt] recovered [6] indices into cluster_state [2016-11-15 11:10:19,419][WARN][cluster.service] [Desmond Pitt] failed to reconnect to node [Desmond Pitt][2-uc6WDiRwSTwsSXf8jg6A][bitnami-nginxstack-50be][inet[/100.114.244.37:9300]] org.elasticsearch.transport.ConnectTransportException: [Desmond Pitt][inet[/100.114.244.37:9300]] connect_timeout[30s] at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.connectToChannels(NettyTransport.java:807) at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.connectToNode(NettyTransport.java:741) at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.connectToNode(NettyTransport.java:714) at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService.connectToNode(TransportService.java:150) at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$ReconnectToNodes.run(InternalClusterService.java:539) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: /100.114.244.37:9300 at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:717) at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientBoss.connect(NioClientBoss.java:152) ... org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker$1.run(DeadLockProofWorker.java:42) ... 3 more ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-after-a-while-restarting-helps/66119/2 "2016-12-13T13:06:04Z")
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