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This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Publish address is a wildcard address. falling back to first non-loopback ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: network.
Log Context
Log “publish address: {{}} is a wildcard address; falling back to first non-loopback: {{}}” classname is NetworkService.java.
We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
}
// wildcard address; probably set by network.host
if (address.isAnyLocalAddress()) {
InetAddress old = address;
address = NetworkUtils.getFirstNonLoopbackAddresses()[0];
logger.warn("publish address: {{}} is a wildcard address; falling back to first non-loopback: {{}}";
NetworkAddress.format(old); NetworkAddress.format(address));
}
}
return address;
}
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