---
title: Proxmox: local node address: cannot use IP
url: https://devopstales.github.io/linux/proxmox-cluster-join-error/
date: 2023-01-07
keywords: proxmox ve, proxmox cluster
---


In thist post I will show you how to sold the problem local node address: cannot use IP at cluster join.

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## The problem

When I tryed to join a new member to my proxmox cluster I get the fallowing error:

```bash
detected the following error(s):
* local node address: cannot use IP '192.168.1.162', not found on local node!

TASK ERROR: Check if node may join a cluster failed!
```

But the intresting is that the ip `192.168.1.162` is not the correct ip on my host. That is `192.168.10.162`. First I could not figure out where the proxmox fint that wrong ip.

## The solution

You need to edit your `/etc/hosts` file:

```bash
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.162 proxmox162.mydomain.intra proxmox162

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
```