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7 changes: 0 additions & 7 deletions docs/reference/modules/discovery/discovery.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -6,13 +6,6 @@ nodes with which to form a cluster. This process runs when you start an
Elasticsearch node or when a node believes the master node failed and continues
until the master node is found or a new master node is elected.

Discovery operates in two phases: First, each node probes the addresses of all
known master-eligible nodes by connecting to each address and attempting to
identify the node to which it is connected. Secondly it shares with the remote
node a list of all of its known master-eligible peers and the remote node
responds with _its_ peers in turn. The node then probes all the new nodes that
it just discovered, requests their peers, and so on.

This process starts with a list of _seed_ addresses from one or more
<<built-in-hosts-providers,hosts providers>>, together with the addresses of
any master-eligible nodes that were in the last known cluster. The process
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