Alan,Don't assume sockets will default to dual stack, explicitly set IPV6_V6ONLY to 0. Apparently some Linux distros ship with net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 restricting sending and receiving to IPv6 packets only. Changes both net and nio code.
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/6882910/webrev.00/webrev/ Thanks, -Chris.