[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmqctl -n ..... status fails one way but not the other

[davidib]

Hello,

I've got a sick rabbit cluster which is acting unusual and things have
gone from bad to worse.  Initially, the cluster, consisting of three
nodes/PCs worked ok, i.e. was able to setup a pub/sub test exchange
and worked as expected. Now, not only is the cluster not working (one
machine's rabbitmq log reports Mnesia cannot connect a node on another
machine) but the status command is only working one way!

Basically, I can "rabbitmqctl -n rabbit at A status" while on node B (and
properly see rabbitmq node on A), but "rabbitmqctl -n rabbit at B status"
while on machine A reports the node on B is not running.

I can ping all the machines (nodes A,B,C), all the firewalls have the
proper ports open.  All erlang cookies are the same, etc. I've tried
reinstalling from scratch erlang/Rabbitmq on one of the nodes, still
get the same results.



ACTUAL RESULTS:NODE B (rabbit at LAKE-DS140) CAN SEE NODE A (rabbit at LAKE-
HP166)
C:\Documents and Settings\lst>rabbitmqctl -n rabbit at LAKE-HP166 status
Status of node 'rabbit at LAKE-HP166' ...
[{pid,672},
 {running_applications,
     [{rabbitmq_management,"RabbitMQ Management Console","2.7.1"},
      {rabbitmq_management_agent,"RabbitMQ Management Agent","2.7.1"},
      {rabbit,"RabbitMQ","2.7.1"},
      {os_mon,"CPO  CXC 138 46","2.2.8"},
      {mnesia,"MNESIA  CXC 138 12","4.6"},
      {amqp_client,"RabbitMQ AMQP Client","2.7.1"},
      {sasl,"SASL  CXC 138 11","2.2"},
      {rabbitmq_mochiweb,"RabbitMQ Mochiweb Embedding","2.7.1"},
      {webmachine,"webmachine","1.7.0-rmq2.7.1-hg"},
      {mochiweb,"MochiMedia Web Server","1.3-rmq2.7.1-git"},
      {inets,"INETS  CXC 138 49","5.8"},
      {stdlib,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","1.18"},
      {kernel,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","2.15"}]},
 {os,{win32,nt}},
 {erlang_version,"Erlang R15B (erts-5.9) [smp:2:2] [async-threads:
30]\n"},
 {memory,
     [{total,18332328},
      {processes,6829982},
      {processes_used,6823567},
      {system,11502346},
      {atom,428361},
      {atom_used,409004},
      {binary,216704},
      {code,8085351},
      {ets,654612}]},
 {vm_memory_high_watermark,0.2287319764753309},
 {vm_memory_limit,858993459}]
...done.


BUT NODE A (rabbit at LAKE-HP166) CANNOT SEE NODE B (rabbit at LAKE-DS140)
F:\Program Files\erl5.9\erts-5.9\bin>rabbitmqctl -n rabbit at LAKE-DS140
status
Status of node 'rabbit at LAKE-DS140' ...
Error: unable to connect to node 'rabbit at LAKE-DS140': nodedown
diagnostics:
- nodes and their ports on LAKE-DS140: [{rabbit,1052}]
- current node: 'rabbitmqctl4211 at lake-hp166'
- current node home dir: F:\Documents and Settings\prm
- current node cookie hash: OkIu/5IPQIZ171ZMFGQ8nQ==

any help very much appreciated

Thanks
David