>> The interfaces are OK. > > The behavior indicates that may not be the case.
OK. But since I can ping them and the server answers promptly when it's finally up - same for other servers bound to all the interfaces, by the way: apache on the public interface, exim on localhost: all of them works perfectly and suddenly. So: what issue could the interfaces have? >> Moreover, Tomcat should only bind itself on >> 127.0.0.1, so no other interface is involved. > > Let's see your server.xml file. Here it is, purged from all the (default) comments: <Server port="8008" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> <!-- Comment these entries out to disable JMX MBeans support used for the administration web application --> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" /> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" /> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" /> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/> <!-- Global JNDI resources --> <GlobalNamingResources> <!-- Test entry for demonstration purposes --> <Environment name="simpleValue" type="java.lang.Integer" value="30"/> <!-- Editable user database that can also be used by UserDatabaseRealm to authenticate users --> <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase" description="User database that can be updated and saved" factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory" pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" /> </GlobalNamingResources> <!-- Define the Tomcat Stand-Alone Service --> <Service name="Catalina"> <Connector port="8009" address="127.0.0.1" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="443" protocol="AJP/1.3" tomcatAuthentication="false" /> <!-- Define the top level container in our container hierarchy --> <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost"> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" resourceName="UserDatabase"/> <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> </Host> </Engine> </Service> </Server> > Increase the logging level to FINE. I did it and this is what I got :) (please notice the timestamps) Jun 15, 2009 10:41:56 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start FINE: ====================== Jun 15, 2009 10:54:38 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig addWatchedResources Thanks so much, --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org