title: Not able to contact elasticsearch on 9200
body: <p>Team, </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>I have installed elastic search service and prerequisites on a local machine. I could see that "service elasticsearch status" shows that service is running. </p></li>
  <li><p>Below logs are dumped to /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log file when service is launched. Ip table service is stopped. </p></li>
  <li><p>I explicitly un commented network.host and port fields to bind to specified ip  and port( 9200), but when i try to contact the machine using 
  <code>http://address:9200</code>, nothing shows up, but the webserver is running on this machine and other sites are accessible. Any thoughts? </p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[2014-05-02 22:24:17,884][INFO ][node                     ] [Sharon Ventura] version[1.1.1], pid[21799], build[f1585f0/2014-04-16T14:27:12Z] 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:17,885][INFO ][node                     ] [Sharon Ventura] initializing ... 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:17,892][INFO ][plugins                  ] [Sharon Ventura] loaded [], sites [head] 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:22,288][INFO ][node                     ] [Sharon Ventura] initialized 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:22,288][INFO ][node                     ] [Sharon Ventura] starting ... 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:22,394][INFO ][transport                ] [Sharon Ventura] bound_address {inet[/10.147.38.151:9300]}, publish_address {inet[/&lt;ip-address&gt;:9300]} 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:25,449][INFO ][cluster.service          ] [Sharon Ventura] new_master [Sharon Ventura][GYPgQG0qSniSd36gP7ErdA][inet[/&lt;ip-address&gt;:9300]], reason: zen-disco-join (elected_as_master) 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:25,611][INFO ][discovery                ] [Sharon Ventura] elasticsearch/GYPgQG0qSniSd36gP7ErdA 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:25,714][INFO ][http                     ] [Sharon Ventura] bound_address {inet[/10.147.38.151:9200]}, publish_address {inet[/&lt;ip-address&gt;:9200]} 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:25,759][INFO ][gateway                  ] [Sharon Ventura] recovered [0] indices into cluster_state 
  [2014-05-02 22:24:25,760][INFO ][node                     ] [Sharon Ventura] started 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks! 
  Santhosh</p>