So, upon further investigation, I have found that this is indeed not possible without code changes. The offending code that makes it impossible: | if (rmiHost == null) | { | rmiHost = ServerConfigUtil.fixRemoteAddress(arg); | Enumeration ifaces = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces(); | System.setProperty("java.rmi.server.hostname", rmiHost); | } | | public static String fixRemoteAddress(String address) | { | try | { | if (address == null || ANY.equals(address)) | return InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(); | } | catch (UnknownHostException ignored) | { | } | return address; | } | Which makes it impossible to bind to all addresses *and* have an IP resolve for RMI. I have a local fix, which checks to see if the name supplied can be resolved to anything other than localhost and, if not, grabs the first (non-loopback) IP address it can find through enumerating the network interfaces. This would not work on a multi-homed machine, but a -b with the actual IP address would probably be fine there. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091212#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...