[rabbitmq-discuss] Naming RabbitMQ nodes with complete domain names

[Alvaro Videla]

Restart the epmd process or if you are just running RabbitMQ then kill it after you stop the server.

Hope that helps.

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On Feb 20, 2011, at 1:49 AM, Max Bridgewater <max.bridgewater at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alvaro,
> 
> I believe you are right. The according modification of the rabbitmq
> scripts seems not that straightforward. Here is what I've got sofar:
> 
> a) Changed the option -sname to -name in rabbitmq-multi
> b) Changed the node name initialization in rabbitmq-env from
> NODENAME=rabbit@${HOSTNAME%%.*} to #NODENAME=rabbit@${HOSTNAME}
> c) Changed the node names in rabbitmq.config to use full host names.
> d) Cleared the mnesia database.
> 
> Now, when I attempt to start the nodes, hereunder is what I get.
> Apparently, despite these modifications rabbitmq/erlang is still
> attempting to set the short name.
> 
> Any idea what else I'm missing?
> Thanks,
> Max.
> 
> ============================================
> Starting all nodes...
> Starting node rabbit at ec2-174-122-225-215.compute-1.amazonaws.com...
> Activating RabbitMQ plugins ...
> 0 plugins activated:
> 
> {error_logger,{{2011,2,19},{12,33,32}},"Can't set short node
> name!\nPlease check your configuration\n",[]}
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Alvaro Videla <videlalvaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried changing the Erlang option -sname to -name?
>> 
>> That's the way Erlang uses to specify long names.
>> 
>> See http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html and then modify your rabbitmq-server script accordingly.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Alvaro
>> 
>> Sent from my iFad
>> 
>> On Feb 19, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Max Bridgewater <max.bridgewater at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> This is probably a silly question but it really baffles me right now.
>>> The original issue is this: I'm trying to use JInterface to connect to
>>> a rabbitmq cluster hosted on EC2. But I keep getting "Cannot connect
>>> to peer node". My understanding is that this error is happening
>>> because I'm using the address 'rabbit at domain.org' to contact the
>>> remote RabbitMQ node named: rabbit at domain. (Note the missing TLD).
>>> That is, because there is no exact  match between the node name given
>>> to JInterface and the name of the node it is connecting to, the
>>> connection fails.
>>> 
>>> I desperately tried configuring RabbitMQ to take the complete domain
>>> name (domain.org) instead of just the short domain name (domain). Any
>>> suggestion on how to resolve this issue?
>>> 
>>> Beyond this, this problem begs the question of how do RabbitMQ nodes
>>> located on different machines across different domains communicate
>>> with each other if the only way they can be referred to each other by
>>> short name? Up until now, I've only clustered nodes on the same
>>> machine.
>>> 
>>> I'm sure missing something. Please enlighten me.
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Max.
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