Hi David,
I apologize for addressing you directly. Actually I saw your replies on this post (Discovery with ECS, Dynamic Initial Master Nodes) and thought you knew what the issue could be and as for support engineers being knowledgeable, I totally understand what you are saying but I have cycled through 3 support engineers and a couple of weeks and have landed no where till now.
I hope you understand where I'm coming from and the needs of an organization and also the fact that my managers know we have elasticsearch paid license and that I have been working with them for some time on the issue now.