IPV6 (Re: Connecting to Jetty)

[Richard Cooper]

Ashley Moran wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 13:22, Ashley Moran wrote:
>> Just to narrow this down, I've installed it on my 6.1/i386 desktop and it
>> works, and another 6.1/amd64 server and it fails, can't bind to 127.0.0.1.
>> Is this a bug in the JDK on amd64?
>>
>> Ashley
> 
> Turns out this was failing because I had compiled IPv6 support.  I've passed a 
> Java option now to use the IPv4 stack and it works.
> 
> I believe this is a known issue?  It appears impossible to bind to an (IPv4) 
> address with the IPv6 stack enabled.

Can I ask what variable and exactly how you passed it? I'm having a 
similar problem with Tomcat and I can't seem to pass the right command 
to get around the problem.

Thanks,
Ric