[erlang-bugs] epmd assumes 127.0.0.1 is always available

[PAILLEAU Eric]

Le 13/10/2012 22:31, Thomas Steen Rasmussen a écrit :
> Hello guys,
> 
> I am using erlang in a FreeBSD jail for RabbitMQ and I've hit what I
> belive is a wrong assumption in epmd. FreeBSD jails do not have
> 127.0.0.1 available. Instead you normally add the jails IP as
> localhost in /etc/hosts to help software that connects to localhost
> find the correct IP to use.

Hello,

did you try to let the erlang node bind the real IP address at start by
setting the kernel directive {inet_dist_use_interface, ip_address()}
and create a 127.0.0.1 dummy interface only for epmd (is it allowed in a
FreeBSD jail ?) ?

note that epmd always add the loopback address anyway even when
overriding the listen addresses ( -address list or ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS env var)

my 10 cents.