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I am not sure, but it looks more like a C++ problem than a ROS specific one.

I think you can write a C++ code for your machines which uses sockets to communicate the IP addresses you need and the setenv() function to change ROS_MASTER_URI and ROS_HOSTNAME the way you want to.

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