[erlang-questions] Longnames vs. shortnames (yet again)

[Éric Pailleau]

Hi,
dns timeout can result in a long node start-up and unexpected behaviour of nodes.
Unless your Dns is high available,  I would recommend to force always same IP to machines, and add entries in /etc/hosts.
Regards

Le 14 févr. 2016 12:57 PM, "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey.kornilov@REDACTED> a écrit :
>
> 14.02.2016 13:57, PAILLEAU Eric пишет:
> > Le 13/02/2016 22:02, Matwey V. Kornilov a écrit :
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> When I should use longnames and when I should use shortnames?
> >>
> >> net_kernel:create_hostpart/2 allows me to understand the difference in
> >> behavior, but I can't understand what is the purpose to have both
> >> longnames and shortnames. I suppose that there are different use-cases
> >> for longnames and shortnames. Unfortunately, Erlang documentation lacks
> >> clear explanation here.
> > Hi,
> > erl manual is clear on this point for -sname :
> > " This  is  sometimes the only way to run distributed Erlang if the DNS
> > (Domain Name System) is not running. "
>
> Should I avoid using -sname until DNS is not running?
>
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