BindAddress exception error (was BindAddress error with jdk1.5 and Tomcat and Resin)

[Sean McNeil]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 16:37 -0800, Richard Schilling wrote:
> I'm narrowing down a problem with BindAddress on jdk1.5, FreeBSD RELENG_6 .
> 
> uname -a output:
> FreeBSD newbox.cognitiongroup.biz 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #3: Fri 
> Nov  4 23:36:56 PST 2005 
> rschilling at cognitiongroup.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PRODUCTION  amd64
> 
> Here's the error:
> 
> $ java TestServer localhost 8080
> Host Address=localhost
> Port        =8080
> Exception in thread "main" java.net.BindException: Can't assign 
> requested address
>          at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
>          at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(PlainSocketImpl.java:359)
>          at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:319)
>          at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:277)
>          at TestServer.main(TestServer.java:15)

What does

netstat -a | grep 8080

show you?

Have you tried starting it with

java.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

set?

Cheers,
Sean