[erlang-questions] net_kernel:start/1 and net_kernel:connect_node/1 errors

[Khitai Pang]

Yes both nodes have the same cookie.

Thanks
Khitai

On 2016/3/6 19:23, Éric Pailleau wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Did you check that both have same cookie ?
>
> "Envoyé depuis mon mobile " Eric
>
>
>
> ---- Khitai Pang a écrit ----
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some problems with distributed erlang on Linux.
>
> I have two ubuntu hosts, and on each node the ERL_EPMD_PORT environment
> variable is set to 5779.
>
> Hostnames are properly set in /etc/hosts on both hosts.  Erlang is
> started on the two hosts by
>
> $ erl -sname er1@REDACTED
>
> (er1@REDACTED)1> node().
> er1@REDACTED
>
> $ erl -sname er2@REDACTED
>
> (er2@REDACTED)1> node().
> er2@REDACTED
>
> and epmd is running on both hosts listening on 5779.
>
>
> Question 1:  Why does connecting to er2@REDACTED using
> net_kernel:connect_node/1 fail?
>
> (er1@REDACTED)4> net_kernel:connect_node(er2@REDACTED).
> false
>
> It runs for a couple seconds and returns false.
>
> Is it because epmd is not listening on the default port?
>
>
> Question 2: If epmd is not running, when I run
> net_kernel:start([er1@REDACTED, shortnames]), it returns error.  Why? If
> it's caused by epmd not running, how to make sure that epmd is started
> when you start an OTP release?
>
> 1> net_kernel:start([er1@REDACTED, shortnames]).
> {error,
>      {{shutdown,
> {failed_to_start_child,net_kernel,{'EXIT',nodistribution}}},
>       {child,undefined,net_sup_dynamic,
>           {erl_distribution,start_link,[[er1@REDACTED,shortnames]]},
>           permanent,1000,supervisor,
>           [erl_distribution]}}}
>
>
> Question 3: After starting erl with -sname, if you run netstat, you'll
> see a process listening on a random port, what is it?
>
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:23333 <tel:23333>           0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
> 12650/beam.smp <http://beam.smp>
>
>
> Question 4: If an OTP release is meant to run on multiple nodes, how to
> properly set node name and start distribution on each node
> automatically?  I want to start running the release on all nodes by
> running one command on one of the nodes.
>
> Currently I'm planning to do it this way:
>
> 1) hardcode all participating hostnames in sys.conf <http://sys.conf>, 
> something like
> [{"er1", "host1"}, {"er2", "host2"}]
> 2) on each host, when the erlang application starts, it reads the config
> from sys.conf <http://sys.conf>, finds its own name and use 
> net_kernel:start/1 to set the
> node name and start distribution
>
> What is the best practice to do it?
>
>
> Thanks
> Khitai
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