I know it is too late, but nevertheless someone might find it useful. My thought: Did you start jboss with -b option run -b ST-BLUMENXP or instead of inet address hostname, you could put localhost. I had a similar problem with Connection refused. I think JBoss doesn't allow all host/ip names by default. It is only listens on 127/localhost by default and you have to provide -b option to bind on different ip/dns than the default. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4174630#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...