Check the server's /etc/hosts file. RH has a bad habit of setting the fqdn to 127.0.0.1..... In my opinion, the server's fqdn should be the external IP address, and only "localhost" should be 127.0.0.1....
Not certain this is your issue, I'll give my hunch a 50% success guess :-)
From: Jerry Yu [mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:33 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] client talks to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1984 ?!
hi, there, I have both client & server of 4.2-RC-20060712 on Redhat Linux 9. Other RHL9 clients work fine. One, mysteriously, failed to start. hobbitclient.log shows it tries to bond with 127.0.0.1:1984, as fails miserably. As in other clients, I define the bb server's IP address in /etc/default/hobbit-client. -x execution of the init script seems it did source the /etc/default/hobbit-client and got the correct bb server IP address. Any idea ? This RH9 boxen doesn't have bind-util package installed, that's the only difference I can think of.