# Connecting to Memcached Cache Nodes Manually
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If your client program does not use Auto Discovery, it can manually connect to each of the Memcached cache nodes. This is the default behavior for Memcached clients.

You can obtain a list of cache node hostnames and port numbers from the [AWS Management Console](https://aws.amazon.com/console/). You can also use the AWS CLI `aws elasticache describe-cache-clusters` command with the `--show-cache-node-info` parameter.

**Example**  
The following Java code snippet shows how to connect to all of the nodes in a four-node cluster:  

```
...

ArrayList<String> cacheNodes = new ArrayList<String>(
	Arrays.asList(
	    "mycachecluster.fnjyzo.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com:11211",
	    "mycachecluster.fnjyzo.0002.use1.cache.amazonaws.com:11211",
	    "mycachecluster.fnjyzo.0003.use1.cache.amazonaws.com:11211",
	    "mycachecluster.fnjyzo.0004.use1.cache.amazonaws.com:11211"));
	      
MemcachedClient cache = new MemcachedClient(AddrUtil.getAddresses(cacheNodes));

...
```

**Important**  
If you scale up or scale down your cluster by adding or removing nodes, you will need to update the list of nodes in the client code.