# How set up to listen on external IP AND localhost? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 4, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-set-up-to-listen-on-external-ip-and-localhost/110207 "2017-12-04T19:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jose\_Ramierez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jose\_Ramierez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jose_Ramierez)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-set-up-to-listen-on-external-ip-and-localhost/110207/1 "2017-12-04T19:52:52Z")
5.6.4 So it comes up stock on localhost. Fine. Then I set "network.host" in .config to the system IP, and now it no longer listens on localhost. This is a pita, because I can't run the same commands on all the cluster nodes. What is the solve? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-set-up-to-listen-on-external-ip-and-localhost/110207/2 "2017-12-04T21:25:06Z")
```auto network.host: ["_local_", "a.b.c.d"] ``` should work. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/modules-network.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/modules-network.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-set-up-to-listen-on-external-ip-and-localhost/110207/3 "2018-01-01T21:25:16Z")
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