If an application is deployed and try to call a different EJB via remote interface the proxy will use all possible endpoints randomly no matter whether the application is deployed local or not.
This is a regression when migrating from EAP 7.0->7.1+ because of the new implementation.

— 7.0 ----
There was a server side implementation
org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.LocalEJBReceiverPreferringDeploymentNodeSelector
which ensure the local node name is returned if available for selection.

— 7.1+ —
The ejb-client implementation will use interface defaults and static references to provide several different implementations and here the RANDOM implementation is used and there is no one to prefer a local deployment