The Sun JVM for Linux, version 1.4.2_08-b03, has difficulties opening (any?) outbound network sockets with recent rawhide kernel/libc. Version 1.5.0, and GNU Interpeter for Java, don't exhibit this problem - it's only the Sun 1.4.x series. Not sure if this is a sun bug, or a glibc bug or kernel bug... so I'm not sure whose bug database to file it in, if any. Suggestions? -- Robin