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AI-generatedShort names with ephemeral ports versus long names with fixed distribution ports for cross-host Erlang clustering
Goal Run distributed Erlang nodes across production hosts after local tests succeeded using short names and default ephemeral distribution ports. Constraint Production firewalls commonly allow EPMD on TCP 4369 but block the ephemeral TCP ports used for distribution data channels. Nodes started with -sname resolve on localhost but can fail across hosts when s
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