server uses IP instead of localhost when client is in same box -------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBREM-1337 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBREM-1337 Project: JBoss Remoting Issue Type: Bug Components: callbacks Affects Versions: 2.5.4.SP5 Environment: Linux Fedora 9 jboss AS 5 remoting package v2.5.4.SP5 Reporter: Tony Fan Labels: reported-by-qe We have a standalone Swing UI app runs on same box as jboss running, UI make EJB call through Jboss remoting framework, since UI is using localhost to make a call, when the box has network issue we often see this Socket timed out and InvokerLocator was using real IP instead of localhost in UI log: Caused by: org.jboss.remoting.InvocationFailureException: Socket timed out. Waited 75000 milliseconds for response while calling on InvokerLocator [sslsocket://192.168.3.86:4446/?clientMaxPoolSize=75&dataType=invocation&enableTcpNoDelay=true&marshaller=org.jboss.invocation.unified.marshall.InvocationMarshaller&socketFactoryClassName=com.ilrd.gem.plaf.util.rmi.ClientSSLSocketFactory&timeout=75000&unmarshaller=org.jboss.invocation.unified.marshall.InvocationUnMarshaller]; nested exception is: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The JBoss Reoting guide article mentios that: The InvokerLocator will accept host name as is and will not automatically convert to IP address (since 2.0.0 release) http://docs.jboss.org/jbossremoting/docs/guide/2.5/html_single/