[erlang-questions] Question about slave:start()

[Mihai Balea]

On Mar 29, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Ben Lackey wrote:

> However, when I specify the node name master, erlang seems to pick up the name of the computer columbia as well.  Is this a bug or some sort of feature I don't understand?


An Erlang node is referenced by its name and host, as in 'nodename@REDACTED'. You can run multiple nodes (basically multiple VMs) on the same machine and you can also run multiple nodes on multiple machines.