# Problem with external load balancer hangs occasionally

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-external-load-balancer-hangs-occasionally/95595>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 2, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-external-load-balancer-hangs-occasionally/95595 "2017-08-02T18:44:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![KeninHouston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@KeninHouston](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KeninHouston)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-external-load-balancer-hangs-occasionally/95595/1 "2017-08-02T18:44:41Z")

</div>

Has anyone else seen the issue that querying the elasticsearch cluster (version 2.4, 3 nodes) behind an external Azure load balancer occasionally times out trying to query? When I query the individual nodes directly, then it never hangs at all.

curl -u es\_admin -XGET [http://internal-lb:9200](http://internal-lb:9200)  
Enter host password for user 'es\_admin':  
curl: (7) Failed connect to internal-lb:9200; Connection timed out

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-external-load-balancer-hangs-occasionally/95595/2 "2017-08-30T18:44:43Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.