Ability for canisters to connect to to other machines yet?

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Hi Developer community,

I wanted to see if canisters can now connect to each other, for example can the LinkedIn example actually allow for other people to connect to it instead of just running a localhost example? Thanks.

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Hi Adam, you can have multiple canisters communicating, but only on one node in the current version.

There are a few ways to do this, a couple are shown in this thread: Calling another canister's methods

So you could create some extra local canisters and have them call into the LinkedUp app.

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Thanks Ori but is it possible for multiple nodes from different machines call each other’s methods or is this still not possible?

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Not possible just yet.

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Has there been any announcement yet or hint as to when this might be available? Thanks.

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Not as such. Is there anything in particular you wanted to try? You might be able to achieve it with a single node.

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For me, it’s just mostly wanting to see a demo of the Internet computer working.

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Ah, this will come of course. ; )