[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq beginner, cannot start rabbitmq/cannot get status

Thu Oct 14 21:40:47 BST 2010

Matt,

Matt Long wrote:
> after I reboot the EC2 instance and ssh back 
> in, I get this when trying to check the status:
> 
> $ sudo rabbitmqctl status
> Status of node 'rabbit at ip-10-100-100-200' ...
> Error: unable to connect to node 'rabbit at ip-10-100-100-200': nodedown
> diagnostics:
> - unable to connect to epmd on ip-10-100-100-200: address

That last line indicates that rabbitmqctl was unable to resolve 
ip-10-100-100-200 to an IP address.

Matthias.