If I log into the Splunk UI on a cluster peer (indexer), why don't I see all the data in the cluster in a search?

I have a 5.0.4 cluster environment with search factor (SF) and replication factor (RF) set as 2.
Since SF=2 both peers should have searchable copies of the hot bucket therefore I was expecting to get search results of these hot buckets from both peers' splunkweb directly.
When I did a test, I was able to get search result from the peer with the original hot bucket but I couldn't get search results from the peer that has the replicate copies of hot buckets.
Does anyone know if above behavior is by design ?