diff --git a/LEDLightControl.h b/LEDLightControl.h
index aa190e2..8a5bb5e 100644
--- a/LEDLightControl.h
+++ b/LEDLightControl.h
@@ -442,6 +442,7 @@ void LEDLightControl::ConnectToSocket()
             // event again should network conditions become better favorable.                
             return; 
         }
+        
         m_TheSocketAddress.set_port(m_EchoServerPort);
 
         if (m_TheTransportSocketType == TransportSocket_t::TCP)
diff --git a/Utilities.h b/Utilities.h
index cde60b9..82cbc30 100644
--- a/Utilities.h
+++ b/Utilities.h
@@ -155,8 +155,15 @@ namespace Utilities
                 // user can choose to specify IP addresses directly in the mbed_app.json
                 // echo-server-hostname field. This will facilitate testing with
                 // locally hosted Echo Servers, which by necessity, do not have 
-                // DNS names.
-                ipAddress.emplace(address.c_str()); 
+                // DNS names. 
+                
+                // In which case the following is how we can ensure that the requisite 
+                // SocketAddress object that is normally created during FQDN resolution,
+                // is manually constructed and propagated back to the User:
+                SocketAddress tempSockAddress(address.c_str(), 0);
+                *pTheSocketAddress = tempSockAddress;
+
+                ipAddress.emplace(address.c_str());                
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/mbed_app.json b/mbed_app.json
index 216975d..5ec4829 100644
--- a/mbed_app.json
+++ b/mbed_app.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
         "sock-type": "NUERTEY_TCP",
         "echo-server-hostname": {
             "help": "Echo server host name.",
-            "value": "\"10.50.10.25\""
+            "value": "\"10.42.0.1\""
         },
         "echo-server-port": {
             "help": "Echo server port number.",