ElasticSearch instance not reachable from outside the server - Azure Windows 2012

Question

I have set up Elastic Search 2.3.0 as a service in an Azure VM with Windows Server 2012 R2. I can access elastic search instance from within the server using

Answer 1

I would suggest to set the network.host to special values

eg.

network.host: [_local_, _site_]

This works for me.