Methods, system, and products are disclosed for administering requests for data communications connections in a wide area network that include receiving, according to a data communications protocol, by a receiver from a sender, a request for a data communications connection, wherein the sender has a network address on a sender's network and the receiver has a network address on a receiver's network; characterizing the sender as local with respect to the receiver's network if the sender's network is the receiver's network; characterizing the sender as remote with respect to the receiver's network if the sender's network is not the receiver's network; and responding to the request in dependence upon a value of a location response flag and in dependence upon the characterization of the sender's network with respect to the receiver's network.