Connect two machines in AKKA remotely ,connection refused - scala

Question

I'm new to akka and wanted to connect two PC using akka remotely just to run some code in both as (2 actors). I had tried the example in akka doc. But what I really do is to add the 2 IP addresses into config file I always get this error?
First machine give me this error:
[info] [ERROR] [11/20/2018 13:58:48.833]
[ClusterSystem-akka.remote.default-remote-dispatcher-6]
[akka.remote.artery.Association(akka://ClusterSystem)] Outbound
control stream to [akka://ClusterSystem#192.168.1.2:2552] failed.
Restarting it. Handshake with [akka://ClusterSystem#192.168.1.2:2552]
did not complete within 20000 ms
(akka.remote.artery.OutboundHandshake$HandshakeTimeoutException:
Handshake with [akka://ClusterSystem#192.168.1.2:2552] did not
complete within 20000 ms)
And second machine:
Exception in thread "main"
akka.remote.RemoteTransportException: Failed to bind TCP to
[192.168.1.3:2552] due to: Bind failed because of
java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: bind
Config file content :
akka {
actor {
provider = cluster
}
remote {
artery {
enabled = on
transport = tcp
canonical.hostname = "192.168.1.3"
canonical.port = 0
}
}
cluster {
seed-nodes = [
"akka://ClusterSystem#192.168.1.3:2552",
"akka://ClusterSystem#192.168.1.2:2552"]
# auto downing is NOT safe for production deployments.
# you may want to use it during development, read more about it in the docs.
auto-down-unreachable-after = 120s
}
}
# Enable metrics extension in akka-cluster-metrics.
akka.extensions=["akka.cluster.metrics.ClusterMetricsExtension"]
# Sigar native library extract location during tests.
# Note: use per-jvm-instance folder when running multiple jvm on one host.
akka.cluster.metrics.native-library-extract-folder=${user.dir}/target/native

Answer 1

First of all, you don't need to add cluster configuration for AKKA remoting. Both the PCs or nodes should be enabled remoting with a concrete port instead of "0" that way you know which port to connect.
Have below configurations
PC1
akka {
actor {
provider = remote
}
remote {
artery {
enabled = on
transport = tcp
canonical.hostname = "192.168.1.3"
canonical.port = 19000
}
}
}
PC2
akka {
actor {
provider = remote
}
remote {
artery {
enabled = on
transport = tcp
canonical.hostname = "192.168.1.4"
canonical.port = 18000
}
}
}
Use below actor path to connect any actor in remote from PC1 to PC2
akka://<PC2-ActorSystem>#192.168.1.4:18000/user/<actor deployed in PC2>
Use below actor path to connect from PC2 to PC1
akka://<PC2-ActorSystem>#192.168.1.3:19000/user/<actor deployed in PC1>
Port numbers and IP address are samples.