# IP filtering on Elastic Search 5.2.2

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ip-filtering-on-elastic-search-5-2-2/94015>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ip-filtering-on-elastic-search-5-2-2/94015 "2017-07-20T21:13:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![eramitsinha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eramitsinha/32/35032_2.png) [@eramitsinha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eramitsinha)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ip-filtering-on-elastic-search-5-2-2/94015/1 "2017-07-20T21:13:32Z")

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Hi,

(ref: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/ip-filtering.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/ip-filtering.html))  
I was trying to implement IP filtering using X-Pack, so I have installed X-Pack on elastic search and I wanted to restrict localhost using following yml configuration, but I am able to access elastic search using http url:

yml:  
xpack.security.enabled: true  
xpack.security.http.filter.enabled: true  
xpack.security.http.filter.deny: ["1XX.2XX.219.122", "localhost","127.0.0.1"]

Am I missing anything please let me know.

Thanks,  
Amit Sinha.

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ip-filtering-on-elastic-search-5-2-2/94015/2 "2017-07-21T06:54:34Z")

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The note at the bottom of that page says:

> In order to avoid locking yourself out of the cluster, the default bound transport address will never be denied. This means you can always SSH into a system and use curl to apply changes.

It is intentionally _not_ possible to block the local machine with IP filtering.

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**Author:** ![eramitsinha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eramitsinha/32/35032_2.png) [@eramitsinha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eramitsinha)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ip-filtering-on-elastic-search-5-2-2/94015/3 "2017-07-21T15:23:07Z")

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Thank You.

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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:** [August 18, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ip-filtering-on-elastic-search-5-2-2/94015/4 "2017-08-18T15:23:52Z")

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