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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`.
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docs/reference/modules/network.asciidoc

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@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ host to other nodes in the cluster. Accepts an IP address, hostname, a
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<<network-interface-values,special value>>, or an array of any combination of
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these. Note that any values containing a `:` (e.g., an IPv6 address or
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containing one of the <<network-interface-values,special value>>) must be quoted
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because `:` is a special character in YAML.
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because `:` is a special character in YAML. `0.0.0.0` is an acceptable IP address
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and will bind to all network interfaces. The value `0` has the same effect as the
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value `0.0.0.0`.
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Defaults to `_local_`.
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