ed. If a node has failed in this way, <code>epmd</code> will prevent you from registering a new node with the old name, since it thinks that the old name is still in use. In this case, you must unregister the name explicitly, by using <code>(epmd/unpublish-port ...)</code>. This will cause <code>epmd</code> to close the connection from the far end. Note that if the name was in fact still in use by a node, the results of this operation are unpredictable. Also, doing this does not cause the local end of the c