# Having issues connecting to aerospike cluster fully with over 5 ip address

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/having-issues-connecting-to-aerospike-cluster-fully-with-over-5-ip-address/2358>\
**Category:** Go Client\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/having-issues-connecting-to-aerospike-cluster-fully-with-over-5-ip-address/2358 "2016-01-07T02:45:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jaylucas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@jaylucas](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/jaylucas)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/having-issues-connecting-to-aerospike-cluster-fully-with-over-5-ip-address/2358/1 "2016-01-07T02:45:58Z")

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Lets say I have over 5 nodes in the cluster in AWS lets say 7 and I am trying to connect to them all.

I can connect to 5 nodes at time with but once I add another host it fails to connect.

Important to note: I have already tried most combinations of ip addresses and know that they all work as sets of 5… also I am accessing them outside the amazon network - i.e locally so I am using there elastic ips not there internal network ips. Hence having to use all 7 rather then just one internal IP.

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**Author:** ![Khosrow\_Afroozeh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Khosrow\_Afroozeh](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Khosrow_Afroozeh)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/having-issues-connecting-to-aerospike-cluster-fully-with-over-5-ip-address/2358/2 "2016-01-07T22:37:31Z")

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That’s strange. This may well be a hard to reproduce bug. Could you please provide a simple snippet of your code to work with?

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**Author:** ![alicebob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@alicebob](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/alicebob)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/having-issues-connecting-to-aerospike-cluster-fully-with-over-5-ip-address/2358/3 "2016-03-28T10:57:06Z")

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Interesting, we’re also having troubles with a 6 node cluster, also with the Go client: [Performance drops with the 6th machine](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/performance-drops-with-the-6th-machine/2656)

maybe this is related?