# Make Elastic Stack listen on localhost AND external IPs?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-elastic-stack-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259275
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-elastic-stack-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259275 "2020-12-21T15:02:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@riahc3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/riahc3)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-elastic-stack-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259275/1 "2020-12-21T15:02:33Z")
Hello
I want to able to make my Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats) all listen on the localhost AND on the external IP (or at least bind it to a IP)
All I see is creating a reverse proxy with Nginx and its something I rather avoid.
How can I do this?
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-elastic-stack-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259275/2 "2020-12-21T15:13:03Z")
For Elasticsearch, you can give a list of addresses to which to bind in `elasticsearch.yml`:
```auto
http.bind_host: ["127.0.0.1", "192.168.1.79"]
```
I can't comment on the other products, sorry.
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### Author:  [@riahc3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/riahc3)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-elastic-stack-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259275/3 "2020-12-21T15:27:35Z")
Thanks....I didnt want to make a thread for EACH product but......
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-elastic-stack-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259275/4 "2020-12-21T21:47:37Z")
Have you looked at the documentation for each product, it does state how to do this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-elastic-stack-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259275/5 "2021-01-18T21:47:50Z")
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