md maintains
 information about the port on which incoming connections are accepted, as
 well as which versions of the Erlang communication protocol the node
 supports.

 <p>
 Nodes wishing to contact other nodes must first request information from Epmd
 before a connection can be set up, however this is done automatically by
 <a href="../../../../com/ericsson/otp/erlang/OtpSelf.html#connect-com.ericsson.otp.erlang.OtpPeer-"><code>OtpSelf.connect()</code></a> when necessary.

 <p>
 The methods <a href="../.