# Non master node not able to join a master node **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 13, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-master-node-not-able-to-join-a-master-node/244825 "2020-08-13T08:19:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dishant.chawla.338](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dishant.chawla.338/32/45546_2.png) [@dishant.chawla.338](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dishant.chawla.338)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-master-node-not-able-to-join-a-master-node/244825/1 "2020-08-13T08:19:21Z")
I'm initializing a cluster with 2 node setup more nodes will be joining the cluster in near future.Both nodes are on different machine. One node will be a master node with the below configuration: transport.host: localhost transport.tcp.port: 9300 http.port: 9200 network.host: 0.0.0.0 http.cors.enabled : true http.cors.allow-origin : "\*" http.cors.allow-methods : OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE http.cors.allow-headers : X-Requested-With,X-Auth-Token,Content-Type, Content-Length, Authorization path.repo: ["/backups"] cluster.name: "es-cluster" node.name: "node-1" node.master: true node.data: true discovery.seed\_hosts: ["127.0.0.1", "[::1]"] cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["node-1"] Other node being the non master has below configuration: transport.host: localhost transport.tcp.port: 9300 http.port: 9200 network.host: 0.0.0.0 http.cors.enabled : true http.cors.allow-origin : "\*" http.cors.allow-methods : OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE http.cors.allow-headers : X-Requested-With,X-Auth-Token,Content-Type, Content-Length path.repo: ["/backups"] cluster.name: "es-cluster" node.name: "node-2" node.master: false node.data: true discovery.seed\_hosts: ["10.xx.xx.xxx"] It shows the below message and does not join the cluster. publish\_address {localhost/127.0.0.1:9300}, bound\_addresses {127.0.0.1:9300}, {[::1]:9300} [2020-08-13T13:39:56,804][WARN][o.e.c.c.ClusterFormationFailureHelper] [node-2] master not discovered yet: have discovered [{node-2}{1CebzVMzSZKPg0rAVVEImA}{vt9uwooRRea8Th3ygKokTw}{localhost}{127.0.0.1:9300}{dilrt}{ml.machine\_memory=16057425920, xpack.installed=true, transform.node=true, ml.max\_open\_jobs=20}]; discovery will continue using [10.81.72.243:9300] from hosts providers and from last-known cluster state; node term 0, last-accepted version 0 in term 0 ---
**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-master-node-not-able-to-join-a-master-node/244825/2 "2020-08-13T08:41:58Z")
> [@dishant.chawla.338](#): > > Both nodes are on different machine. > ... > > ```auto > transport.host: localhost > transport.tcp.port: 9300 > > ``` You cannot form a cluster across different machines if the nodes are only listening on `localhost`. Delete these `transport.*` lines from your config. ---
**Author:** ![dishant.chawla.338](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dishant.chawla.338/32/45546_2.png) [@dishant.chawla.338](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dishant.chawla.338)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-master-node-not-able-to-join-a-master-node/244825/3 "2020-08-13T08:58:36Z")
Thank you so much David.It worked. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-master-node-not-able-to-join-a-master-node/244825/4 "2020-09-10T08:58:46Z")
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