novice question

[Steve Elkins]

Hi,

Managed to fix this and thought I should explain what I did.

Poked around in the source starting with net_adm:names/0 and
made a lucky guess.  Added...

  lookup file bind

...to resolv.conf and {error,nxdomain} went away.  Then some
empty lists, but there's a patch for that on the Bugs & Fixes
page.

Steve

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: novice question
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:09:11 -0400
From: Steve Elkins <sgelkins@REDACTED>
To: erlang-questions@REDACTED

Hi,

I've run into a few problems getting 2 nodes on the same machine 
connected.  I hope someone on the list will tell me what I should 
look at next.  Details follow.

I've killed and restarted epmd with 2 -d flags...

sge@REDACTED:16$ ./epmd -d -d      
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:42:59 2000: epmd running - daemon = 0
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:42:59 2000: try to initiate listening port 4369
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:42:59 2000: starting
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:42:59 2000: entering the main select() loop

In another window...

sge@REDACTED:56$ erl -sname bank
Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 4.9.1 [source]

Eshell V4.9.1  (abort with ^G)
(bank@REDACTED)1> 

...and back in the 1st window...

epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:43:10 2000: opening connection on file descriptor 4
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:43:10 2000: got 19 bytes
***** 00000000  00 11 78 b4 41 4d 00 00  05 00 05 00 04 62 61 6e  |..x.AM.......ban|
***** 00000010  6b 00 00                                          |k..|
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:43:10 2000: ** got ALIVE2_REQ
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:43:10 2000: registering 'bank:2', port 46145
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:43:10 2000: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:43:10 2000: got 4 bytes
***** 00000000  79 00 00 02                                       |y...|
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:43:10 2000: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "bank"

...in a 3rd window...

sge@REDACTED:12$ /usr/local/lib/erlang/bin/epmd -names
epmd: up and running on port 4369 with data:
name bank at port 14917
sge@REDACTED:13$

...and back in the 1st window...

epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:47:44 2000: opening connection on file descriptor 5
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:47:44 2000: got 3 bytes
***** 00000000  00 01 6e                                          |..n|
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:47:44 2000: ** got NAMES_REQ
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:47:44 2000: got 4 bytes
***** 00000000  00 00 11 11                                       |....|
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:47:44 2000: got 24 bytes
***** 00000000  6e 61 6d 65 20 62 61 6e  6b 20 61 74 20 70 6f 72  |name bank at por|
***** 00000010  74 20 34 36 31 34 35 0a                           |t 46145.|
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:47:44 2000: ** sent NAMES_RESP
epmd: Mon Sep  4 13:47:44 2000: closing connection on file descriptor 5

...which all makes sense, but...

(bank@REDACTED)1> net_adm:names().
{error,nxdomain}
(bank@REDACTED)2>

...hmmm?  nslookup works here for short name, long name, and dotted 
quad.  net_adm:host_file() parses my .hosts.erlang file ok.

Still with me?  What other information should I provide?  Got into
this trying to run the Erlang book's banking example in chapter 6.
Works fine in a single shell, of course, but I got a nodedown when
trying to talk between 2 nodes and started poking around.  I'm on
OpenBSD 2.7.

Thanks for reading,
Steve