The default interface binding behaviour
Remote connection to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform server The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform now binds its services to localhost (127.0.0.1) by default, instead of binding to all available interfaces (0.0.0.0). This was primarily done for security reasons because of concerns of users going to production without having secured their servers correctly. To enable remote access by binding JBoss services to a particular interface, simply run JBoss with the -b option. To bind to all available interfaces and re-enable the legacy behaviour use ./run.sh -b 0.0.0.0 on Linux. In any case, be aware you still need to secure your server properly. Using -b as part of the JBoss Server's command line is equivalent to setting these individual properties: -Djboss.bind.address, -Djava.rmi.server.hostname, -Djgroups.bind_addr and -Dbind.address. Passing -Djboss.bind.address to the Java process as part of the JAVA_OPTS variable in the run scripts will not work as it is a JBoss property not a JVM property.