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AI-generatedCan stale global registrations persist after a node crash in a multi‑node Erlang cluster?
The goal is to guarantee that a name registered via global:register_name/2 can be reused immediately after the owning node fails. In a local single‑node environment the registry is recreated on restart, hiding the issue. In a production cluster the global registry is replicated across nodes, and the OTP documentation states that stale entries are eventually
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