epmd [-d|-debug] [DbgExtra...] [-address Addresses] [-port No] [-daemon] [-relaxed_command_check] Starts the port mapper daemon. epmd [-d|-debug] [-port No] [-names|-kill|-stop Name] Communicates with a running port mapper daemon. This daemon acts as a name server on all hosts involved in distributed Erlang computations. When an Erlang node starts, the node has a name and it obtains an address fro