Resolving JMX host url

I have a question concerning, how to configure cruisecontrol:

I am having an issue connecting to a red hat machine through jmx, however all the windows boxes and another redhat box can establish their connections just fine.

How do you change the jmx default host to the ip of the machine rather than loopback?

In net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.monitoring.CruisecontrolServer
the JMXConnectorFactory.connect(...) is defaulting to localhost for some reason. Every other machine uses the correct ip, but the redhat machine keeps resolving to localhost. Even passing the explicit ip in the url doesn't work either. Its confusing to me.