# Why will unicast will not work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 19, 2014, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-will-unicast-will-not-work/15888 "2014-02-19T08:41:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![David\_Montgomery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_Montgomery](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Montgomery)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-will-unicast-will-not-work/15888/1 "2014-02-19T08:41:25Z")
Why will unicast will not work? discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["198.199.94.xxx:9200","192.241.198.yyy:9200"] Both nodes have been restarted. Both have the same config file. Both can telent into each other. Yet I get the below. I am using version 1.0.0 root@oXdevelopmentXsfXelasticsearchX11:~# curl -XGET ' [http://198.199.94.xxx:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty=true](http://198.199.94.xxx:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true)' { "cluster\_name" : "test", "status" : "green", "timed\_out" : false, "number\_of\_nodes" : 1, "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 1, "active\_primary\_shards" : 0, "active\_shards" : 0, "relocating\_shards" : 0, "initializing\_shards" : 0, "unassigned\_shards" : 0 } I am on digital ocean. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CACF%2B8rq5Nyq4%2B8ejE19m5vUiAwLECdfHmp8pzo2f\_KRsHeshEg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CACF%2B8rq5Nyq4%2B8ejE19m5vUiAwLECdfHmp8pzo2f_KRsHeshEg%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![David\_Montgomery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_Montgomery](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Montgomery)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-will-unicast-will-not-work/15888/2 "2014-02-19T08:48:30Z")
sorry. I changed to port 9300. It worked! Yeay. Multicast did not work though. Now life is good:) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, David Montgomery \<[davidmontgomery@gmail.com](mailto:davidmontgomery@gmail.com) > wrote: > Why will unicast will not work? > > discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false > discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: > ["198.199.94.xxx:9200","192.241.198.yyy:9200"] > > Both nodes have been restarted. Both have the same config file. Both can > telent into each other. Yet I get the below. I am using version 1.0.0 > > root@oXdevelopmentXsfXelasticsearchX11:~# curl -XGET ' > [http://198.199.94.xxx:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty=true](http://198.199.94.xxx:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true)' > { > "cluster\_name" : "test", > "status" : "green", > "timed\_out" : false, > "number\_of\_nodes" : 1, > "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 1, > "active\_primary\_shards" : 0, > "active\_shards" : 0, > "relocating\_shards" : 0, > "initializing\_shards" : 0, > "unassigned\_shards" : 0 > } > > I am on digital ocean. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CACF%2B8rrxHst\_HbP2bJksezANYOExAGCm96GF%2BtPUh-JH9Y9Ofg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CACF%2B8rrxHst_HbP2bJksezANYOExAGCm96GF%2BtPUh-JH9Y9Ofg%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Binh\_Ly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce7236/32.png) [@Binh\_Ly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-will-unicast-will-not-work/15888/3 "2014-02-19T13:59:41Z")
Also, some networks do not support multicast. Just FYI. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/233d8f18-d634-47a2-81d5-87a9f7f8c629%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/233d8f18-d634-47a2-81d5-87a9f7f8c629%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**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, 1:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-will-unicast-will-not-work/15888/4 "2017-07-06T01:49:04Z")