From afbb79196979ff5e52fd44f2d8097b59a4534a57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mirek Svoboda Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:01:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document wildcard for network interfaces (#28839) With this commit we mention how Elasticsearch behaves when either `0` or `0.0.0.0` is used for `network.host`. --- docs/reference/modules/network.asciidoc | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/modules/network.asciidoc b/docs/reference/modules/network.asciidoc index e60b56fe12d..6c9e72c18be 100644 --- a/docs/reference/modules/network.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/modules/network.asciidoc @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ this host to other nodes in the cluster. Accepts an IP address, hostname, a <>, or an array of any combination of these. Note that any values containing a `:` (e.g., an IPv6 address or containing one of the <>) must be -quoted because `:` is a special character in YAML. +quoted because `:` is a special character in YAML. `0.0.0.0` is an acceptable +IP address and will bind to all network interfaces. The value `0` has the +same effect as the value `0.0.0.0`. + Defaults to `_local_`.