# Possible to have a cluster across subnets?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-have-a-cluster-across-subnets/14717>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 4, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-have-a-cluster-across-subnets/14717 "2013-12-04T23:18:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Josh\_Harrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@Josh\_Harrison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Josh_Harrison)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-have-a-cluster-across-subnets/14717/1 "2013-12-04T23:18:05Z")

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I have a couple machines I'd like to cluster together that are not in the  
same subnet, so they're unable to find each other automatically.  
Is it possible for me to easily cluster across subnets? If so, how?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-have-a-cluster-across-subnets/14717/2 "2013-12-04T23:22:13Z")

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Yep, just use unicast discovery.

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On 5 December 2013 10:18, Josh Harrison [hijakk@gmail.com](mailto:hijakk@gmail.com) wrote:

> I have a couple machines I'd like to cluster together that are not in the  
> same subnet, so they're unable to find each other automatically.  
> Is it possible for me to easily cluster across subnets? If so, how?
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-have-a-cluster-across-subnets/14717/3 "2017-07-06T02:03:12Z")

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