Thanks for all your response guys. Chuck's recommendation did fix my problem. I also liked the loopback recommendation.
Martin On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Martin Dubuc <martind1...@gmail.com>wrote: > On my Tomcat server (currently running version 6.x), I have set up a > firewall rule to drop all IPv6 traffic. It seems that this is causing some > issue on startup, because the startup delay is noticeable (takes around 3 > minutes) when the IPv6 firewall rule is on. If the IPv6 rule is not on, the > server usually starts in a few seconds. By looking more closely at the > problem, my understanding is that the delay is caused by the server trying > to access the database realm. It is using JDBC to connect to the database. > The driver is likely trying to communicate first using IPv6 and when a > timeout occurs (because all IPv6 packets are dropped by the firewall), the > driver switches back to IPv4 and then the startup is able to complete. To > me, this seems to be a JDBC driver issue, but I am wondering if there is > configuration within Tomcat to force the driver not to use IPv6. > > Martin >
