# Need help,how many ports does ES listening?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-how-many-ports-does-es-listening/14852>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 13, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-how-many-ports-does-es-listening/14852 "2013-12-13T11:57:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![lobster777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@lobster777](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lobster777)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-how-many-ports-does-es-listening/14852/1 "2013-12-13T11:57:41Z")

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Hi all,  
When ES running , I find so many ports listening by ES besides 9200,9300. but in our server ,port should be keep in range. Can I config it?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-how-many-ports-does-es-listening/14852/2 "2017-07-06T02:01:26Z")

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