# Connection refused - elastic search doesnt listen anywhere
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-elastic-search-doesnt-listen-anywhere/51977
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 6, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-elastic-search-doesnt-listen-anywhere/51977 "2016-06-06T15:53:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@xon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xon)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-elastic-search-doesnt-listen-anywhere/51977/1 "2016-06-06T15:53:23Z")
Straight to my configuration... I edited the `/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml` and I have tried the following different options:
network.host: localhost
network.host: 127.0.0.1
network.host: 0.0.0.0
I also tried _local_ instead of localhost!
I also played around with the
`network.bind_host: 0.0.0.0`
or
`network.bind_host: 127.0.0.1`
I havent changed the `http.port`or any other thing in general...
to my surprise when I
`curl -X GET localhost:9200` I get nothing back.
By doing `lsof -i TCP` I dont see elasticsearch listening anywhere, and with `service elasticsearch status` I see it running...
Im running Debian 3.16.7.
Any help please?
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-elastic-search-doesnt-listen-anywhere/51977/2 "2016-06-06T16:07:06Z")
What version of Elasticsearch is it?
Is Elasticsearch running? Like, does it show up in `ps aux | grep java`?
Has it logged anything in `/var/log/elasticsearch/clustername.log`? It ought to log where it has bound.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-elastic-search-doesnt-listen-anywhere/51977/3 "2016-06-06T17:39:52Z")
Also could you try `curl -X GET 127.0.0.1:9200` instead of localhost?
Not sure it would help but is worth asking 🙂
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### Author:  [@xon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xon)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-elastic-search-doesnt-listen-anywhere/51977/4 "2016-06-07T10:20:55Z")
The issue was that in version 1.1.0 nothing really works rofl. I am trying 2.2.2 now thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-elastic-search-doesnt-listen-anywhere/51977/5 "2017-07-05T22:45:40Z")