"rhasselbaum" wrote : I have tried specifying -Djboss.bind.address=<my_ip_address> at startup, but it does not seem to have any effect. And even if it did work, I need a solution that is DHCP-friendly because this is a development workstation.Using -b <your_ip> doesn't work either? Anyway, it seems this problem is related to the /etc/hosts file on linux systems. In many installations I encountered the first line showed something like: | 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost <your_hostname> | This is probably what makes JBoss bind itself to 127.0.0.1. If you want to change this behaviour, just edit /etc/hosts to resemble something like this: | 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost | <your_ip> <your_hostname> | This worked in all cases I encountered. Unfortunately I don't know how to fix this problem permanently when you're using DHCP, but I guess there is more information to be found on this subject on the Internet. Maybe just leave your hostname out of /etc/hosts? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4004780#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...