I've seen a couple posts regarding this type of error but their resolutions haven't solved our issue though. We're testing our install using a very simple example EJB. The client looks like this (not complete code):

 // preparing properties for constructing an InitialContext object
 Properties properties = new Properties();
 properties.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
 properties.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "jnp://69.57.141.196:1099");
 try {
 // Get an initial context
 InitialContext jndiContext = new InitialContext(properties);
 System.out.println("Got context");

 // Get a reference to the Bean
 Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("StringProcessor");
 System.out.println("Got reference");

 // Get a reference from this to the Bean's Home interface
 StringProcessorHome home = (StringProcessorHome)
 PortableRemoteObject.narrow (ref, StringProcessorHome.class);
 System.out.println("Got home");
 // Create an Adder object from the Home interface
 StringProcessor sp = home.create();

When we run, we always get:

Got context
Got reference
Got home
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 69.57.141.196; nested exc
eption is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect


Nothing is quick except the "Got context" line. Got reference and Got home take a number of seconds between them then the failure takes maybe 20 seconds.

I've tried using the -blocalhost option on startup, and -bREALIP on startup neither of which has helped. They both actually cause exceptions on startup like address already in use, etc.

Thank you very much for your help...