[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq erlang client error: inet_address_preference

[Matthias Radestock]

On 12/02/13 12:03, ejoubert at rbcon.com wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 January 2013 23:19:22 UTC, Mike Bridge wrote:
>
>     I'm new to rabbitmq and fairly new to erlang....  I'm trying
>     unsuccessfully to get the erlang client (3.0.1) working.  Any idea
>     what this error means?
>
>     ** {{case_clause,undefined},
>          [{amqp_network_connection,inet_address_preference,0,
>
>     [{file,"src/amqp_network_connection.erl"},
>                                     {line,154}]},
>
>
> A possible cause is that the Erlang client and the broker versions are
> mismatched. That error should not occur if you use matching versions
> together.

It's actually not a version mismatch thing but, as Paul noted, a bug in 
the rebar friendly fork of the erlang client, which neglected to include 
an application env setting that is new in the 3.0.x version of the client.

Matthias.