Erlang.NET.OtpEpmd.r3_publish C# (CSharp) Method

        private static TcpClient r3_publish(OtpLocalNode node)
        {
            TcpClient s;

            try
            {
                OtpOutputStream obuf = new OtpOutputStream();
                s = new TcpClient(node.Host, EpmdPort.get());

                obuf.write2BE(node.Alive.Length + 3);

                obuf.write1(publish3req);
                obuf.write2BE(node.Port);
                obuf.writeN(Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1").GetBytes(node.Alive));

                // send request
                obuf.WriteTo(s.GetStream());
                if (traceLevel >= traceThreshold)
                {
                    log.Debug("-> PUBLISH (r3) " + node + " port=" + node.Port);
                }

                byte[] tmpbuf = new byte[100];

                int n = s.GetStream().Read(tmpbuf, 0, tmpbuf.Length);

                if (n < 0)
                {
                    if (traceLevel >= traceThreshold)
                    {
                        log.Debug("<- (no response)");
                    }
                    return null;
                }

                OtpInputStream ibuf = new OtpInputStream(tmpbuf, 0);

                if (ibuf.read1() == publish3ok)
                {
                    node.Creation = ibuf.read2BE();
                    if (traceLevel >= traceThreshold)
                    {
                        log.Debug("<- OK");
                    }
                    return s; // success - don't close socket
                }
            }
            catch (SocketException)
            {
                if (traceLevel >= traceThreshold)
                {
                    log.Debug("<- (no response)");
                }
                throw new IOException("Nameserver not responding on " + node.Host);
            }
            catch (IOException)
            {
                // epmd closed the connection = fail
                if (traceLevel >= traceThreshold)
                {
                    log.Debug("<- (no response)");
                }
                throw new IOException("Nameserver not responding on " + node.Host
                              + " when publishing " + node.Alive);
            }
            catch (OtpErlangDecodeException)
            {
                if (traceLevel >= traceThreshold)
                {
                    log.Debug("<- (invalid response)");
                }
                throw new IOException("Nameserver not responding on " + node.Host
                              + " when publishing " + node.Alive);
            }
            return null; // failure
        }