diff --git a/PendingReleaseNotes b/PendingReleaseNotes
index 15b212da2fe90..65347cc2b263e 100644
--- a/PendingReleaseNotes
+++ b/PendingReleaseNotes
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 12.0.0
 ------
 
- * Some varients of the omap_get_keys and omap_get_vals librados
+ * When assigning a network to the public network and not to
+   the cluster network the network specification of the public
+   network will be used for the cluster network as well.
+   In older versions this would lead to cluster services
+   being bound to 0.0.0.0:<port>, thus making the
+   cluster service even more publicly available than the
+   public services. When only specifying a cluster network it
+   will still result in the public services binding to 0.0.0.0.
+
+*  Some variants of the omap_get_keys and omap_get_vals librados
    functions have been deprecated in favor of omap_get_vals2 and
    omap_get_keys2.  The new methods include an output argument
    indicating whether there are additional keys left to fetch.
diff --git a/src/common/pick_address.cc b/src/common/pick_address.cc
index a47a1d946a4cc..ebce2d553d718 100644
--- a/src/common/pick_address.cc
+++ b/src/common/pick_address.cc
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ void pick_addresses(CephContext *cct, int needs)
     exit(1);
   }
 
+
   if ((needs & CEPH_PICK_ADDRESS_PUBLIC)
       && cct->_conf->public_addr.is_blank_ip()
       && !cct->_conf->public_network.empty()) {
@@ -119,9 +120,16 @@ void pick_addresses(CephContext *cct, int needs)
   }
 
   if ((needs & CEPH_PICK_ADDRESS_CLUSTER)
-      && cct->_conf->cluster_addr.is_blank_ip()
-      && !cct->_conf->cluster_network.empty()) {
-    fill_in_one_address(cct, ifa, cct->_conf->cluster_network, "cluster_addr");
+      && cct->_conf->cluster_addr.is_blank_ip()) {
+    if (!cct->_conf->cluster_network.empty()) {
+      fill_in_one_address(cct, ifa, cct->_conf->cluster_network, "cluster_addr");
+    } else {
+      if (!cct->_conf->public_network.empty()) {
+        lderr(cct) << "Public network was set, but cluster network was not set " << dendl;
+        lderr(cct) << "    Using public network also for cluster network" << dendl;
+        fill_in_one_address(cct, ifa, cct->_conf->public_network, "cluster_addr");
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   freeifaddrs(ifa);