Hi Patrik, ah, I think the penny has just dropped!? I don't understand. You have used the same entity type name when you > started it. > > ClusterSharding(system).start
So this simply registers a cluster node as having the potential to host entities (under the local shard region) for a given name, prop. factory function, etc. Thus, as we know what entities this cluster node can potentially host (because we always should know what we registered), we are always able to locate the local shard region actor. That makes a lot more sense to me. Thanks for the help, Carl. -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.