jconsole connecting to ipv6 JMX service URL

Question

I have trouble connecting to a JMX Service URL having an IPv6 address through jconsole. I tried

service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://[fd02:c9e3:a6c0:4306:0:0:0:27]:5500/jmx  

and I get

Connection did not succeed to ..

As for some background,

• I am running the jconsole from my Windows 7 box and connect to the jmx server on linux.
• the jmx server is a dual stacked Redhat linux box and I am able to connect through the jconsole using the IPv4 address.
• Not sure if this is relevant, the host I am trying to connect to has 2 network interfaces and one of them is used for management purposes only.

Answer 1

OK, I added the below condition to wrap the server host address in square brackets.

    if ( aHost instanceof Inet4Address ) {
       this.hostAddress = aHost.getHostAddress();
    }
    else if ( aHost instanceof Inet6Address ) {
       this.hostAddress = "[" + aHost.getHostAddress() + "]";
    }
    else {
       throw someException();
    }

.............some other stuff.................

    registry = LocateRegistry.getRegistry( this.hostAddress, ... );

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In fact, the host address is specified as a name value pair in a properties file. Hence I could have done like below but it didn't work for other reasons.

.properties file

hostName = [fd02:c9e3:a6c0:4306:0:0:0:27]