[erlang-questions] How configure and debug Erlang networking

[Michael]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:04:08PM +0100, Hynek Vychodil wrote:
> Hello,
> I often stuck in problem with Erlang networking and I don't know how
> debug problem and solve it. For example I start VM with erl -sname
> server and than another one on same HW erl -sname client. I can see
> client@REDACTED and server@REDACTED node names in prompts and than I do
> 
> (client@REDACTED)1> net_adm:ping('server@REDACTED').
> pang
> 
> and got pang. What shall I do now? What is best practice to trace down
> networking problem? I know that there is some problem with my_host
> resolution but I would like know systematic way how to deal with it.
> Beside this I also remember that there is some Erlang specific
> networking and name resolving configuration and It was repeatly
> mentioned here in mailing list but I can't find proper search criteria
> to find it. I have spend more than hour searching documentation (erl,
> epmd, inets, ...) and this mailing list without success. It is really
> frustrating.
> 
> I would appreciate any help with it. Also some mnemotechnic which help
> me in future will be welcome.
> 
> With best regards
> 
> -- 
> --Hynek (Pichi) Vychodil
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  this search was useful  

    erlang pang network how to debug

 

  See "Why won't my distributed Erlang nodes Communicate?" 9.8

  http://erlang.org/faq/faq.html

~Michael