Kudos to Sun for not only acknowledging the issue quickly but addressing it as well. I'm more than happy to eat my own words.

Well I've been causing trouble again. Its not really my trouble but it seems to have uncovered some bad network programming with the SUN JDK. And probably more importantly it appears that Java's remote debugging network protocal sucks. Kudo's to IDEA and SUSE for being good sports and helping track these issues down.

Here are the relevent threads.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6177
and
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/threads.html#00823

Sun has yet to respond to the bug report. I'm not holding my breath.