Registered · Cross-platform

9300 Elasticsearch transport

TCP Unofficial
UDP
SCTP
DCCP

What it is

Elasticsearch inter-node transport.

When / why

Between cluster nodes only.

Protocol status detail

TransportStatusMeaning
TCP Unofficial Not assigned by IANA, but standardized, specified, or widely used on this port.
UDP Not applicable for this transport.
SCTP Not applicable for this transport.
DCCP Not applicable for this transport.

Port range

Registered (1024–49151). Assigned by IANA on request; usable without elevated privileges on most systems.

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Firewall rules for port 9300

Copy-ready inbound rules for the active transports. Replace every <source> placeholder with the specific host, subnet, or CIDR that should reach this port.

ufw

sudo ufw allow proto tcp from <source> to any port 9300

Allow TCP 9300 (Elasticsearch transport). Replace <source> with the network/host that should reach it.

firewalld

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="<source>" port port="9300" protocol="tcp" accept'

Allow TCP 9300 (Elasticsearch transport) from <source>. Run 'firewall-cmd --reload' afterwards.

nftables

nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr <source> tcp dport 9300 accept

Allow TCP 9300 (Elasticsearch transport). Assumes table 'inet filter' with an 'input' chain.

iptables

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s <source> --dport 9300 -j ACCEPT

Allow TCP 9300 (Elasticsearch transport). Persist with iptables-save/netfilter-persistent.

Azure NSG

az network nsg rule create -g <resource-group> --nsg-name <nsg> -n Allow-elasticsearchtransport-9300 --priority 1000 --access Allow --direction Inbound --protocol TCP --source-address-prefixes <source> --destination-port-ranges 9300

Inbound rule for 9300 (Elasticsearch transport). Set <source> to a CIDR; lower priority number = higher precedence.

AWS Security Group

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id <sg-id> --ip-permissions IpProtocol=tcp,FromPort=9300,ToPort=9300,IpRanges="[{CidrIp=<source-cidr>}]"

Inbound TCP 9300 (Elasticsearch transport). Replace <source-cidr> (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16).

GCP firewall

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-elasticsearchtransport-9300 --direction=INGRESS --action=ALLOW --rules=tcp:9300 --source-ranges=<source-cidr> --network=<network>

Ingress rule for 9300 (Elasticsearch transport). Scope with --source-ranges and optionally --target-tags.

Windows netsh

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow Elasticsearch transport 9300/TCP" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=9300 remoteip=<source>

Inbound TCP 9300 (Elasticsearch transport). Set remoteip to a host/subnet; 'any' is discouraged.

Windows PowerShell

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow Elasticsearch transport 9300/TCP" -Direction Inbound -Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 9300 -RemoteAddress <source>

Inbound TCP 9300 (Elasticsearch transport). Replace <source> with a host or subnet.

Rules are generated only for transports marked active for this port. They default to an inbound allow with an explicit source placeholder — never any. Review direction, scope, and rule precedence before applying in production.