AFAIK Rial uses Erlang's distribution system. If you want to find more info search about "epmd" and Erlang Distribution.
-Alvaro Sent from my iPhone On May 28, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Alek Morfi <alek.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > What kind of protocol is used betwwen Riak nodes to communicate. Because if > all Riak nodes are located in the same cluster (LAN network scale) there is > no problem. > But when Riak nodes are located on different clusters which are connected > through Internet, there are some limitations. Because some ISPs only allow > communicating by HTTP and SMTP protocol and I am wondering how Riak nodes can > communicate over the Internet. We know that each Riak node is an Erlang > application and Erlang application can communicate with each other by 1) > distributed erlang 2) secure socket > > 1) Do Riak nodes communicate with HTTP protocol ? ( I mean internal > communcation between Riak nodes) > 2) If NO, then how we can connect Riak nodes in a large scale area such as > WAN or Internet scale? (please consider the limitation that some ISP have on > port number and communication protocol) > > Cheers, > Alek > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
