And that's completely wrong, as I've seen in other default Linux installations. Should be just (at least that line): 127.0.0.1 localhost and make sure localhost isn't mapped to anything else (when I set up my box sometime 2005 it inserted a line mapping localhost to my actual network adapter as well, effectively destroying name resolution). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4019213#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...