# How to discover Elasticsearch nodes via multicast

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-discover-elasticsearch-nodes-via-multicast/54006>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 27, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-discover-elasticsearch-nodes-via-multicast/54006 "2016-06-27T07:59:42Z")\
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**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:** [June 27, 2016, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-discover-elasticsearch-nodes-via-multicast/54006/2 "2016-06-27T08:11:49Z")

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Multicast has been removed. Use unicast instead.

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