Re: 1-to-1 connections & possibly hidden nodes

Thank you all for the tips!

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 6:59 AM Stanislav Ledenev <[email protected]>
wrote:

> As I understand, cookies are for (simple) authentication purposes.
> Nodes with different cookies won't be able to interact with each other but
> connection attempt would be made with each call to a node.
>
> Another approach that I recall working is one that is cookie-based. Each
>> cookie you set represents cluster membership, so nodes that share a cookie
>> will connect to each other.
>>
>> If you create another node that has a distinct cookie, it won't connect
>> to anything else. If I recall properly, you can however call
>> erlang:set_cookie(OtherNode, Cookie) to make a single caller able to use a
>> distinct cookie to talk to OtherNode, meaning it will connect to it, but
>> won't be able to transitively forward the connection unless the peer also
>> shares that cookie.
>>
>> This lets you use non-hidden nodes that are parts of clusters but still
>> have them able to privately talk to special nodes by using one-off cookies
>> that act as a way to wall off connection propagation
>>
>
> Here is my _suggestion_: I think "-hidden_node" is about publishing
> information
> about a node and "-connect_all " is about a process of establishing
> connection when node is up.
>
> What is the advantage over using a hidden node?
>
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