It turns out this is a simple hostname resolution issue. For reasons unknown, my mac's hostname was not resolving to an IP for an interface that was being used. This was easily solved by editing /etc/hosts and adding an entry matching the output of 'hostname' so that it always resolves to 127.0.0.1:
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[rob@macbook ~]$ hostname
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rsmbp.local
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[rob@macbook ~]$ cat/etc/hosts
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##
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# Host Database
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#
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# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
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# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.