We definitely don't want a), since connecting to the loopback address is probably going to provide a faster connection than an external address (though I guess that depends on how the OS does things). As Charles said, b) works for us for the Jopr Agent's use case, but if you think c) is a better solution for other potential use cases (e.g. a remote client reading the jnp-service.url file via NFS and needing a non-loopback address), then we can work with that too. If you do c), the Jopr Agent would basically have to do the same logic you would have done to derive b) from c). View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4241519#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...