ejb client hangs

[buzztroll]

The interest ejb client hangs for me in the call to
jndiContext.lookup("interest/Interest");

I have verified several times that I have deployed the application correctly. Any help is appreciated.

[buzztroll]

I solved this but I am not entirely sure what the problem is yet. I was running both the client and the server on the same linux machine. The machine was behind another linux machine that was acting as a NAT. It appears that for some reason (even though in jndi.properties i specified localhost) the client was trying to contact the gateway machine. I solved this by adding "buzztroll.mcs.anl.gov" before localhost in /etc/hosts.

If anyone understands why this happened I would appreciate any insite.