Ldd equivalent in AIX

Is IPv6 support at fault? Try setting the system property java.net.preferIPv4Stack=true.

See what InetAddress.getAllByName(), InetAddress.getAllByAddress() return.

Try this:

stty -a

and see if lnext is ^V. If not, try:

stty lnext ^V

where you will type "^" (caret) and "V" as separate characters. Now try to see if you can type an escape using ^V^[ (does ^VEsc work on your keyboard?).

Also, check to see if you're in emacs mode

Depending on how you're using it, there are a few other ways to use escape in a Korn shell script:

print '\E'
escape1='\033'    # contains the literal characters as shown
echo -e "$escape1"
printf '%b' "$escape1"
print "$escape1"
escape2=$'\e'     # contains an actual escape
echo "$escape2"
printf '%s' "$escape2"
print "$escape2"

Of course, you wouldn't normally output escape all by itself.