mihais-macbook:rabbit mihai$ sudo rabbitmqctl -n rabbit@localhost status
Status of node rabbit@localhost ...
=ERROR REPORT==== 16-Oct-2008::19:22:04 ===
Error in process <0.34.0> on node 'rabbitmqctl45879@mihais-macbook' with exit value: {badarg,[{erlang,list_to_existing_atom,["rabbit@mihais-macbook"]},{dist_util,recv_challenge,1},{dist_util,handshake_we_started,1}]}


{badrpc,nodedown}
done.
mihais-macbook:rabbit mihai$ sudo rabbitmqctl status
Status of node 'rabbit@mihais-macbook' ...
{badrpc,nodedown}
done.