epmd death

[Ernie Makris]

Hello,

I have a concern that if epmd for some reason crashes, then my distributed
nodes
can't contact each other even if a new epmd is started. I have two
distributed nodes
setup on the same machine. I then kill epmd and then try to have one node
rpc to another,
which gives me a {badrpc,nodedown}.

I took a look at net_kernel and erl_epmd and there doesn't look like there
is a reconnection
feature. Does anyone ever have any problems of this happening? Is there any
workaround?

Of course I could setup a separate socket and communicate through that, but
it defeats the purpose
of distributed erlang:(

Thanks
Ernie