Severe Error when running sample jsp on Tomcat.. Please Help me!!

I am trying to run a sample jsp that is provided in netbeans(5.5) on the bundled tomcat server (5.5.17) and i get the following error:

SEVERE: Error initializing endpoint

java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: listen failed

at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketListen(Native Method)

at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.listen(PlainSocketImpl.java:374)

at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:320)

at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:185)

at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:141)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.DefaultServerSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultServerSocketFactory.java:49)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.initEndpoint(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:292)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol.init(Http11BaseProtocol.java:138)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1016)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:580)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:791)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:503)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:523)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:266)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:431)

.....

I've been trying to figure out why i get this error for a few days now, could someone please help me..

thanks :)

[1843 byte] By [SurreyStudenta] at [2007-11-26 16:19:28]
# 1
What machine are you trying to run it under? Is it a machine with a firewall or strict network settings?
lil_alfy_aliena at 2007-7-8 22:42:52 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Web Tier APIs...