A method for managing communication between a client process and a server process in a distributed computing environment, the client process residing on a host computer that is connected to a physical network having a transport layer and a network layer. The method begins when the client process makes a remote procedure call by detecting whether a server process identified by the remote procedure call is located on the host computer. If so, a binding handle vector is returned to the client process. The protocol sequence in the binding handle is mapped to a second protocol sequence that establishes an interprocess communication path between the client and server processes instead of a path through the transport and network layers of the physical network. The remote procedure call is then executed, preferably by using a send and receive messaging facility of the host computer operating system.