[erlang-questions] badrpc, nodedown - newbie question

[Jack Orenstein]

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

> erl -name gandalf -setcookie abc
> ...
> erl -name joe -setcookie abc
>
> ...
>
> 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

On each node, run "node()" to make sure that you are using the  
correct node name. And as Kevin Smith suggested, try net_adm:ping.

Jack Orenstein