# Elasticsearch is not accessible via machine IP Address

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-accessible-via-machine-ip-address/206090>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 31, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-accessible-via-machine-ip-address/206090 "2019-10-31T18:25:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![premkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@premkumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/premkumar)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-accessible-via-machine-ip-address/206090/5 "2019-11-01T13:48:25Z")

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Hi @the1bit

I tried out the steps you have mentioned in the post.

> [@Network.host issue: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=78](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/network-host-issue-elasticsearch-service-main-process-exited-code-exited-status-78/200193):
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> Hi, I try to configure an Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu 18.04 (on Azure). The basic installation is fine. Nevertheless when I try to configure the "network.host" value in the configuration file the Elasticsearch service does not start. Error message: systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch. -- Subject: Unit elasticsearch.service has finished start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: [http://www.ubuntu.com/support](http://www.ubuntu.com/support) -- Unit elasticsearch.service has finished starting up. -- The start-up result…

The above comment holds my configuration of Elasticsearch. But still, I'm not able to start even an elasticsearch node.

Could you please help out on this.

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