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

[Jayson Vantuyl]

Actually, IPsec was mostly what I was worried about.

That said, DNS is what will bite you.  If you're cool with that, then  
you can try using global_group.

On Aug 25, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Richard Andrews wrote:

> 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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