md</code> and, if the node is known, a connection is then made to the Erlang node.</p>
<p>Clojang nodes can also register themselves with <code>epmd</code> if they want other nodes in the system to be able to find and connect to them. This is done by call to <code>(epmd/publish-port ...)</code>.</p>
<p>Be aware that on some systems (such as VxWorks), a failed node will not be detected by this mechanism since the operating system does not automatically close descriptors that were left open when the node fail