>Eventually if you have the IP address for the target machine (in my
>case on the local network) using InetAddress.getByAddress() works as
>expected
>
>

In your case specifically it would be pretty easy to modify the socket
constructor in Jaybird. This will not work globally because your fix
doesn't compile under JDK1.3. I will look into it some more but I am
sure any fix I made won't be released for some time as we are just
beginning the beta for Jaybird 2.0. It doesn't help that I am having
trouble reproducing the problem.

If you would like to contribute a patch that would fix the problem and
work for JDK1.3 and I would be happy to add it to the project.

Steve