Network communications fails with R13B02-1 on OS X

[Dave Bryson]

After more debugging I'm still baffled as to why two nodes cannot  
communicate on the same host.  I started epmd with the debug flag and  
see the nodes are registering but the net:ping does not seem to make  
the PORT request to epmd:

epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:25 2009: epmd running - daemon = 0
epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:31 2009: ** got ALIVE2_REQ
epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:31 2009: registering 'n1:2', port 49353
epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:31 2009: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5
epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:31 2009: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "n1"
epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:37 2009: ** got ALIVE2_REQ
epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:37 2009: registering 'n2:2', port 49355
epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:37 2009: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5
epmd: Thu Oct  1 12:51:37 2009: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "n2"

Note: epmd is NOT showing a PORT2_REQ  from the net:ping().  I know  
the code I'm testing with is correct because it works on Ubuntu.

Does anyone have ANY idea why this is happening??

Thanks in advance!
Dave

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dave Bryson <daveb@REDACTED>
> Date: October 1, 2009 9:17:41 AM CDT
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Network communications fails with R13B02-1 on OS X
>
> Yesterday I upgraded to otp_13B02-1 from R12-5 on OS X 10.5.8. I  
> notice today that any form of network communication between nodes  
> seems to fail. Trying to start slaves on the same host (which I was  
> able to do before the upgrade) fails with an {error,timeout}.  Even  
> doing a simple 'net:ping(node1@REDACTED)' on the same host between  
> two nodes fails with a pang.   I can run the same exact tests on  
> Ubuntu with R13B02-1 and they pass with flying colors.  Has anyone  
> else noticed this problem on OS X?  Any ideas what the problem may be?
>
> Thanks!
> Dave