Erlang distribution is just not meant to be used over the Internet, both for security and network reliability reasons. It’s something you would use on a restric

Erlang distribution is just not meant to be used over the Internet, both for security and network reliability reasons. It’s something you would use on a restricted LAN. It’s also entirely optional. There’s an FAQ entry explaining the reasoning behind this - in short, making a distribution protocol that can work securely with untrusted nodes is very difficult and risky, so the more pragmatic choice is to just not support that use case. https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/FAQ:-What-kind-of-patches-will-be-approved%3F#can-i-write-a-patch-to-increase-the-security-of-the-erlang-distribution https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/FAQ:-What-kind-of-patches...