The Registry module provides local registration. It does not provide global 
registration. Since a better global registry is something the OTP team is 
working on, there was little use in doubling the effort.

That said, you can call a named GenServer on another node using {server_name, 
node_name} as "reference".

Michał.

On 14 Mar 2017, 18:27 +0100, Dave Thomas <[email protected]>, wrote:
> but the Registry module seems to require to be called by name, and not by 
> pid. Given that, I can see a way of using it between nodes.
>
> I wanted to replace the now-deprecated GenEvent with Registry, but this seems 
> to be a roadblock.
>
> As I said, I must be missing something obvious.
>
>
> Dave
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