Paul, My mistake. The problem isn't with the ipv6. I just disabled it. I am now wondering if it could be the transparent proxy issue that has also been discussed in the java mailing lists. I should have mentioned that I am in a private ip address space using an address which isn't mapped to an external ip address. I see the problem on other machines which happen to have an external ip address mapped to their private ip address (using the same domainname internally and externally). Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list