[erlang-questions] badrpc, nodedown - newbie question

[Kevin A. Smith]

Try pinging one node from the other before doing the rpc call. I've  
found that I need to do that so the nodes can find one another. Any  
result other than the atom 'pong' indicates that the nodes are unable  
to see each other.

For example, to ping the node running on arcturus from kodiak you'd  
enter:

net_adm:ping(joe@REDACTED).

--Kevin
On Jan 5, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Jim Cook wrote:

> HI everyone:
>
> I'm sorry to ask a newbie question but I have run out of ideas, and  
> just don't know what I'm missing.
>
> I'm trying to replicate Joe Armstrong's name server example on page  
> 172 of "Programming Erlang", which is my favorite book at the  
> moment :).
>
> I've got two PCs: one is running Fedora 8, the other SuSE 9.3. I've  
> used /etc/hosts to configure their names and I've verified that the  
> names (kodiak.abcd.home and arcturus.abcd.home) work in both  
> directions by pinging and by accessing their httpds via a browser.
>
> I start erl on the fedora box (kodiak) with
>
> erl -name gandalf -setcookie abc
>
> then I start kvs and store some values just like in the book. Local  
> lookups work fine as described on pages 170-172 of the book.
>
> Then I switch to the SuSE box (arcturus) and launch erl like this
>
> erl -name joe -setcookie abc
>
> Breathless with anticipation (well, nearly) I then run
>
> rpc:call( gandalf@REDACTED, kvs, lookup, weather).
>
> and I get
>
> {badrpc, nodedown}
>
> I have tried everything I can think of to get the names working  
> including IP addresses and various name combinations.
>
> For example I tried starting erl with fully qualified names on both  
> sides, e.g.:
>
> erl -name gandalf@REDACTED -setcookie abc
>
> etc.
>
> Basically I've decided that I just don't understand how erl is doing  
> its name resolution and before I start wading through the code  
> trying to figure it out, I wanted to see if anybody could straighten  
> me out.  Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Best,
> Jim
>
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