diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-db/etcd/files/etcd.service b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-db/etcd/files/etcd.service
index 09f1954c18..30b3999314 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-db/etcd/files/etcd.service
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-db/etcd/files/etcd.service
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ConditionPathExists=!/usr/share/oem/cloud-config.yml
 User=etcd
 PermissionsStartOnly=true
 # Default, this will be overwritten with a cloud-config
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/etcd -f -data-dir /var/lib/etcd -bind-addr 0.0.0.0
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/etcd -f -data-dir /var/lib/etcd -bind-addr 0.0.0.0 -n default
 
 Restart=always
 # Set a longish timeout in case this machine isn't behaving