My setup works fine on my LAN, and an online port checker says that my Minecraft server port is OPEN to the Internet.
- Windows 10, with Minecraft bedrock server version =
1.18.1.02 - The server has
whitelist=falseso any outside users should be welcome to join. - Minecraft players outside my LAN can see my server, including ping = 16ms.
=> This proves that my server is indeed responding, and my LAN port forwarding* is working! - But when these outside players then try to actually CONNECT to my world, THEN they get the message that they cannot connect.
- The Minecraft server output correctly shows LAN activity but does not show anything at all about any outside connection attempts.
--> What do I need to do to make outside players connect to my world?
Update: I just spent half a night installing Docker for Windows so that I could run the Bedrock server as a Docker container, and this too is not reachable from outside.
*My LAN port forwarding:
- DSL modem is wide open, forwards everything to my gateway.
- Gateway has explicit rule to forward the 4 minecraft ports to the LAN IP of my local server.
- ports as reported by the Minecraft server output are 19132,19133,25565,59989.
1 Answer
Edit: I had the same issue running a bedrock server from a docker container on my synology NAS.
The solution is to connect from the outside, it does not work if you try to connect from your LAN to the WAN Port.
