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, :).
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If port 7070 is defined in the /etc/services file on your host, you will need to use "netstat -an | grep 7070" to match or use telnet to check with the command "telnet localhost 7070". It should not make a connection. Locally port 7070 is used for arcp (don't know what that is) but there is an entry in /etc/services for port 7070.