Thursday, June 12, 2014

Minecraft port forward no working?

I'm fairly experienced with minecraft servers, and I'm attempting to put an old one back up. I fixed the port to match my IP address which changed recently, and it appears to be done correctly. The problem is, I can only connect to my server using the local connection ip 0.0.0.0 and I cannot use the true ip, so the server is only accessible from my host computer, not even the laptop in my house, so that means my brother and friends can't get on. If I try to direct connect to the server, it says "Connecting to the server…" For quite a bit of time and then "Failed to connect to the server" "Connection timed out: connect" but the server says "Can't reach server" when listed in the server.

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