[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq clustering issues

[Matthias Radestock]

On 25/06/13 01:50, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> running a windows host with three virtual machines running centos 5.9
>  and have them in a host only network. I have rabbitmq server 3.0.3
> installed in all three vm's along with erlang (named the nodes
> rabbit1 at localhost,rabbit2 at localhost,rabbit3 at localhost)

There is your problem. If all three nodes have a host name of
'localhost', how are they going to find each other?

The host name component of the node name must correspond to the host
name of each of your VMs. And these host names must be resolvable on all 
VMs.

Regards,

Matthias.