[erlang-questions] Fwd: newbie distel / general node help

[Raoul Duke]

P.S.: After some experimenting on my Windows XP PC (although with a
newer version of erlang), I found there using "erl -sname
foo@REDACTED" and "net_adm:ping('bar@REDACTED')." would work. Using
"@localhost" didn't fix the issue on CentOS/OpenVZ.

When I called "erl_epmd:names()." on the XP machine it would list the
two nodes (even if I'd started without "@localhost" for sname, but in
that case ping didn't work).

However trying "erl_epmd:names(). " on my CentOS/OpenVZ machine just
froze for a long time and then eventually gave "{error,address}".

For whatever it might be worth to any other folks :-}

On 2/28/07, Raoul Duke <raould@REDACTED> wrote:
> >    yes, unfortunately.
> >    if you have two nodes, on the same machine, with the same cookie, running the
> > same version of the distribution protocol, if should work.
>
> >    how about if you start the nodes like this;
> > erl -sname bla@REDACTED
> > erl -sname foo@REDACTED
>
> using "localhost" or "mail" (the name of the machine) only gave pangs.
>
> thanks for your time on this, i will chalk it up to my OpenVZ setup
> being pathalogical.
>