# Kubectl connection refused **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [May 10, 2021, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubectl-connection-refused/15841 "2021-05-10T09:03:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@cmd](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/cmd)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubectl-connection-refused/15841/1 "2021-05-10T09:03:30Z")
Hello all. Hope someone can help me. To describe the situation in short, I have a self managed k8s cluster, running on 3 machines (1 master, 2 worker nodes). In order to make it HA, I attempted to add a second master to the cluster. After some failed attempts, I found out that I needed to add controlPlaneEndpoint configuration to kubeadm-config config map. So I did, with masternodeHostname:6443. I generated the certificate and join command for the second master, and after running it on the second master machine, it failed with error execution phase control-plane-join/etcd: error creating local etcd static pod manifest file: timeout waiting for etcd cluster to be available Checking the first master now, I get connection refused for the IP on port 6443. So I cannot run any kubectl commands. Tried recreating the .kube folder, with all the config copied there, no luck. Restarted kubelet, docker. The containers running on the cluster seem ok, but I am locked out of any cluster configuration (dashboard is down, kubectl commands not working). Is there any way I make it work again? Not losing any of the configuration or the deployments already present? Thanks! Sorry if it’s a noob question. ### Cluster information: Kubernetes version: 1.15.3 Cloud being used: (put bare-metal if not on a public cloud) bare-metal Installation method: kubeadm Host OS: RHEL 7 CNI and version: weave 0.3.0 CRI and version: containerd 1.2.6