[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#585122: Please make epmd bindable to only loopback address

[Holger Weiß]

* Joerg Dorchain <joerg at dorchain.net> [2010-06-09 12:53]:
> when used in conjunction with ejabberd, I only need to run erlang
> programs on one single machine. It seems advisable that in such
> cases the epmd binds only to the loopback address. (a similiar
> option for the rpc portmap daemon exists)
>
> The following patch allows for such an option.

FWIW, I created a patch which allows for specifying one or more IP
addresses epmd should bind to, it's currently cooking in upstream's "pu"
branch:

	https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/bcf3b3d0