[erlang-questions] Fwd: newbie distel / general node help

[Raoul Duke]

>    yes, unfortunately.
>    if you have two nodes, on the same machine, with the same cookie, running the
> same version of the distribution protocol, if should work.

>    how about if you start the nodes like this;
> erl -sname bla@REDACTED
> erl -sname foo@REDACTED

using "localhost" or "mail" (the name of the machine) only gave pangs.

thanks for your time on this, i will chalk it up to my OpenVZ setup
being pathalogical.