[erlang-questions] Controlled interaction of two erlang distributed networks

Richard Andrews bflatmaj7th@REDACTED
Wed Aug 26 05:20:10 CEST 2009


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jayson Vantuyl<kagato@REDACTED> wrote:
> You might ask why I wouldn't just monkey with Distributed Erlang to separate
> the globals into groups (see the global_group module).  The problem is that
> Distributed Erlang still just isn't built for this sort of use-case.  In
> Distributed Erlang getting the SSL stuff working right is hard, firewalls
> suck, NAT sucks even more, and the proper DNS setup is more trouble than
> maintaining a node-list ever was (and impossible to quickly fix, if you use
> high enough TTLs).

Security, NAT, etc. is a non-issue as any non-LAN traffic travels via
IPSec between sites. Do you think this modifies your suggestions?


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