8. In home directory of the user running erlang process, there is hidden file .erlang.cookie. It holds string which is responsible for the topology of erlang cluster. Make sure that the string (cookie) is the same across all nodes you want to connect. If there is no cookie, create one. answered Mar 13, 2012 at 2:28. More @Wikipedia
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