[erlang-questions] Trouble connecting to Erlang in a virtual hosting setup

[Jason A. Hoffman]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:28 AM, Joel Reymont wrote:

> I host with Joyent on one of their Sparc Accelerators. My container
> has a dedicated IP address and I point both wagerlabs.com and
> topdog.cc to it. Internally, though, the name of the box is
> z13261AA.textdrive.com.
>
> I cannot connect to this node with net_adm:ping/1 using the internal
> box name since the Erlang ports are blocked.
>
> The challenge code in dist_util grabs the internal box name and fails
> in list_to_existing_atom when I cannot connect to my node using my
> domain names or the IP address. It also fails with no_node if I pre-
> create the xxx@REDACTED atom since the host portion of
> the node name won't match that returned by the Erlang node at Joyent.
>
> Is there a workaround for this?
>
> 	Thanks, Joel
>

It doesn't have to be called "z13261AA.textdrive.com".

You can change the hostname with

hostname something.com

and permanently by editing /etc/nodename

- Jason