From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:07:11 PDT

I will bet London to a brick that you're using Vista. If so, fix the ^#$#^@&@% hosts file they ship with it (either you, or M$ have defaulted localhost to the IPv6 version AFAICT).
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