Thanks that was it. All I had to do was add: -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true to the JBoss startup.sh. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026611#4026611 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4026611