Nodes not talking

I am using Ubuntu 9 and I start two nodes with:

erl -name node1 -setcookie demo

and

erl -name node2 -setcookie demo

开发者_C百科yet when I run "nodes()" the nodes do not see each other and it returns an empty list. Anyone know why?

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Because they are not connected unless they communicate with each other, e.g. by one pinging the other:

(node1@<host>)> net_adm:ping(node2@<host>).

Note that if you checked the nodes with net_adm:names(), they would have been visible via epmd.