diff --git a/salt/elasticsearch/defaults.yaml b/salt/elasticsearch/defaults.yaml
index 782f2ad93..ee2051d12 100644
--- a/salt/elasticsearch/defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/elasticsearch/defaults.yaml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ elasticsearch:
     ingest:
       geoip:
         downloader:
-          enabled: true
+          enabled: false
     logger:
       org:
         elasticsearch: