# Question in Node Configuration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358779>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 6, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358779 "2024-05-06T06:24:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358779/2 "2024-05-06T09:34:19Z")

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Elasticsearch does not work like that. Any node that holds a replica of a shard will write and reads can gio to any node. Why are you looking to restrict this? What is the high-level problem you are trying to solve?

This also seems to be a duplicate of [this issue](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358782). Please do not open multiple issues on the same topic.

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