Thanks for the excellent suggestions, but no luck yet. I checked "netstat -a | grep 7070" and got no results. I tried using 7070 instead of '7070' -- no change. I switched the real name of the host with 'myhost' just in case my company has some privacy rule I'm not aware of. The actual code does in fact use the actual name of the server. I'm still trying to figure out what YMMY stands for, :).