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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:51:33 -0400
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Subject: Re: decommissioning a wrong node
From: Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Peter Schuller
<peter.schuller@infidyne.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to bind the JMX to a specified IP only? It seems there's
>> just 'com.sun.management.jmxremote.port' and no way to specify a host.
>
> I don't think so, or at least past googling indicated several people
> wanting to do this but not finding answers. It's extremely annoying;
> e.g. the common case of wanting to listen on 127.0.0.1 but no public
> interfaces...
>
> --
> / Peter Schuller
>

It can not be done. There is a sun bug id on this somewhere. The good
news is that even if  JMX binds to an IP you do not want it to, the
redirect by hostname and dynamic port choosing in the JMX protocol
will probably cause it not to work "security my complexity".