diff --git a/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/tasks/main.yml b/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/tasks/main.yml
index f57afedb..03fd4ce1 100644
--- a/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/tasks/main.yml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
   delay: 5
   tags: debug
   when:
-    - hostvars[inventory_hostname]['private_ip'] is not defined
+    - hostvars[inventory_hostname]['private_ip'] is not defined or hostvars[inventory_hostname]['private_ip'] == ""
 
 - name: Wait for Elasticsearch API (Private IP)
   uri: