The connections to 1199 and 1198 are for a JNDI lookup. The 5446 connection is most likely made by an EJB proxy that was returned by the JNDI lookup. Have a look at the config of the "jboss.remoting:service=Connector,transport=socket" mbean in conf/jboss-service.xml. By default the "serverBindAddress" attribute is set to ${jboss.bind.address} which will resolve to whatever address you pass to -b. If you want the server to listen on vpnip, you'd start JBoss with -b vpnip. You can also have a look at the "jboss:service=Naming" which has "BindAddress" and "RmiBindAddress" attributes. Compare those configs to what you see in the "jboss.remoting:service=Connector,transport=socket"; it will probably give you a clue as to why JNDI is behaving differently from the remoting connector in your config. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4228675#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...