I have reinstalled elasticsearch and getting same error though I tried with publish address .Please find below screen shot of ES started and curl command with output
ES STARTED
dilip@ubuntu:~/Desktop/ELK2/e/bin$ ./elasticsearch --node.name Dilip
[2016-01-05 20:57:12,926][INFO ][node ] [Dilip] version[1.7.3], pid[2584], build[05d4530/2015-10-15T09:14:17Z]
[2016-01-05 20:57:12,927][INFO ][node ] [Dilip] initializing ...
[2016-01-05 20:57:13,232][INFO ][plugins ] [Dilip] loaded [], sites []
[2016-01-05 20:57:13,484][INFO ][env ] [Dilip] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/ (/dev/sda1)]], net usable_space [13.3gb], net total_space [18.5gb], types [ext4]
[2016-01-05 20:57:20,823][INFO ][node ] [Dilip] initialized
[2016-01-05 20:57:20,824][INFO ][node ] [Dilip] starting ...
[2016-01-05 20:57:21,165][INFO ][transport ] [Dilip] bound_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9300]}, publish_address {inet[/192.168.161.138:9300]}
[2016-01-05 20:57:21,271][INFO ][discovery ] [Dilip] elasticsearch/2uXlZQr6QKGSr4PweqeHJA
[2016-01-05 20:57:25,132][INFO ][cluster.service ] [Dilip] new_master [Dilip][2uXlZQr6QKGSr4PweqeHJA][ubuntu][inet[/192.168.161.138:9300]], reason: zen-disco-join (elected_as_master)
[2016-01-05 20:57:25,333][INFO ][http ] [Dilip] bound_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9200]}, publish_address {inet[/192.168.161.138:9200]}
[2016-01-05 20:57:25,336][INFO ][node ] [Dilip] started
[2016-01-05 20:57:25,477][INFO ][gateway ] [Dilip] recovered [0] indices into cluster_state
CURL COMMAND
/Desktop/ELK2/e/bin$ curl ‘localhost:9200/_cat/nodes?v’
curl: (7) Failed to connect to xn--localhost-499d port 9200: Connection refused
dilip@ubuntu:~/Desktop/ELK2/e/bin$ curl ‘192.168.161.138:9200/_cat/nodes?v’
curl: (7) Failed to connect to xn--192-mo0a.168.161.138 port 9200: Connection refused