# Elasticsearch did not respond with license information

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-did-not-respond-with-license-information/194192>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-did-not-respond-with-license-information/194192 "2019-08-07T09:19:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Sohan\_J](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sohan_j/32/45812_2.png) [@Sohan\_J](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sohan_J)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-did-not-respond-with-license-information/194192/1 "2019-08-07T09:19:39Z")

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My ES yml file:

# ---------------------------------- Cluster -----------------------------------

# 

# Use a descriptive name for your cluster:

# 

cluster.name: test-app-cluster

# 

# ------------------------------------ Node ------------------------------------

# 

# Use a descriptive name for the node:

# 

node.name: node-1

# 

# Add custom attributes to the node:

# 

node.attr.rack: r1

# 

# ----------------------------------- Paths ------------------------------------

# 

# Path to directory where to store the data (separate multiple locations by comma):

# 

path.data: D:/Test-Datasets/test

# 

# Path to log files:

# 

path.logs: D:/Test-Datasets/logs

# 

# ----------------------------------- Memory -----------------------------------

# 

# Lock the memory on startup:

# 

bootstrap.memory\_lock: true

# 

# Make sure that the heap size is set to about half the memory available

# on the system and that the owner of the process is allowed to use this

# limit.

# 

# Elasticsearch performs poorly when the system is swapping the memory.

# 

# ---------------------------------- Network -----------------------------------

# 

# Set the bind address to a specific IP (IPv4 or IPv6):

# 

network.host: 12.345.67.89

# 

# Set a custom port for HTTP:

# 

http.port: 9200

# 

# For more information, consult the network module documentation.

# 

# --------------------------------- Discovery ----------------------------------

# 

# Pass an initial list of hosts to perform discovery when this node is started:

# The default list of hosts is ["127.0.0.1", "[::1]"]

# 

discovery.seed\_hosts: ["127.0.0.1"]

# 

# Bootstrap the cluster using an initial set of master-eligible nodes:

# 

cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["node-1"]

# 

# For more information, consult the discovery and cluster formation module documentation.

# 

# ---------------------------------- Gateway -----------------------------------

# 

# Block initial recovery after a full cluster restart until N nodes are started:

# 

gateway.recover\_after\_nodes: 3

# 

# For more information, consult the gateway module documentation.

# 

# ---------------------------------- Various -----------------------------------

# 

# Require explicit names when deleting indices:

# 

action.destructive\_requires\_name: true

My Kibana yml file

server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.

# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.

# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.

server.host: "10.206.36.50"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy.

# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath

# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.

# This setting cannot end in a slash.

#server.basePath: ""

# Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with

# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.

# This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will

# default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0.

#server.rewriteBasePath: false

# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.

#server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576

# The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.

server.name: "test-kibana-host"

# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch.hosts: ["[http://12.345.67.89:9200](http://12.345.67.89:9200)"]

# When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host

# setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host

# that connects to this Kibana instance.

elasticsearch.preserveHost: true

# Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and

# dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist.

kibana.index: ".kibana"

# The default application to load.

kibana.defaultAppId: "home"

I am able to access the ES node from another PC. But my Kibana refuses to start. It says Elasticsearch did not respond with license information. Then I tried a solution suggested in another thread.  
curl -uelastic -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/\_xpack/license/start\_basic](http://localhost:9200/_xpack/license/start_basic)'

but I got another error (503) saying:  
error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"cluster\_block\_exception","reason":"blocked by: [SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];"}],"type":"master\_not\_discovered\_exception","reason":"ClusterBlockException[blocked by: [SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];]","caused\_by":{"type":"cluster\_block\_exception","reason":"blocked by: [SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];"}},"status":503}

Help please!

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-did-not-respond-with-license-information/194192/2 "2019-08-07T10:29:00Z")

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please take the time to properly format your code snippets. This is super hard to read. You can use markdown in this forum. In your configuration you set:

> [@Sohan\_J](#):
>
> gateway.recover\_after\_nodes: 3

This means you need a certain amount of nodes in order to recover and be up.

On top of that, it seems that Elasticsearch is bound to localhost, but it needs to listen on a network in order to be reachable by kibana, unless kibana is running no that same system.

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**Author:** ![Sohan\_J](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sohan_j/32/45812_2.png) [@Sohan\_J](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sohan_J)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-did-not-respond-with-license-information/194192/3 "2019-08-07T12:22:33Z")

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**elasticsearch.yml**

cluster.name: test-app-cluster  
node.name: node-1  
node.attr.rack: r1

path.data: D:/Test-Datasets/test  
path.logs: D:/Test-Datasets/logs

bootstrap.memory\_lock: true

network.host: 12.345.67.89  
http.port: 9200

discovery.seed\_hosts: ["127.0.0.1"]  
cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["node-1"]

gateway.recover\_after\_nodes: 3

action.destructive\_requires\_name: true  
xpack.license.self\_generated.type: basic

**kibana.yml**

server.port: 5601  
server.host: "12.345.67.89"  
server.name: "test-kibana-host"

elasticsearch.hosts: ["[http://12.345.67.89:9200](http://12.345.67.89:9200)"]  
elasticsearch.preserveHost: true

kibana.index: ".kibana"  
kibana.defaultAppId: "home"

**Results**  
ES node can be accessed on the network.  
When I launch Kibana I am getting "Elasticsearch did not respond with license information" error

I tried to rectify it using solution from another thread, which is:  
curl -uelastic -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/\_xpack/license/start\_basic](http://localhost:9200/_xpack/license/start_basic)'

but I got an error 503 saying:  
error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"cluster\_block\_exception","reason":"blocked by: [SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];"}],"type":"master\_not\_discovered\_exception","reason":"ClusterBlockException[blocked by: [SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];]","caused\_by":{"type":"cluster\_block\_exception","reason":"blocked by: [SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];"}},"status":503}

Kibana is running on the same system. But I want to be able to access it from other systems on the network.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-did-not-respond-with-license-information/194192/4 "2019-08-07T13:33:59Z")

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how many nodes are you running? can you remove the gateway option above if you only have a single node. Also, please provide full logs of elasticsearch starting up. thanks.

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**Author:** ![Sohan\_J](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sohan_j/32/45812_2.png) [@Sohan\_J](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sohan_J)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-did-not-respond-with-license-information/194192/5 "2019-08-08T05:26:34Z")

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Hi, changed my config files to the following.

**elasticsearch.yml**

network.host: pc-name-a123  
cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: node-1

**kibana.yml**  
server.host: pc-name-a123  
server.name: pc-name-a123  
elasticsearch.hosts: ["[http://pc-name-a123:9200](http://pc-name-a123:9200)"]

Basically I changed it to my PC name, so I can access it on LAN. Both Kibana and Elaticsearch can be accessed from any PC on the network.  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-did-not-respond-with-license-information/194192/6 "2019-09-05T05:26:37Z")

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