Notes

Port Forward Minecraft Server Issues

I found a fix for the problem. Sorry for the attitude before. I'm sure you can understand where I was coming from after trying what seemed like virtually everything.



Supposed Fix



1. Reset EVERYTHING! That means reset your router and computer.



2. Undo any previous changes / attempts made (this also means failed port forward attempts)



3. Make your Ethernet connection only run on IPv4



4. Make the IPv4 connection into a static connection https://portforward.com/networking/static-win7.htm This link gives pictures and details on how to do this.
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5. Proceed to the at&t's online internet tool thing. Should be able to access it by putting this http://192.168.1.254/ into your address bar.



6. Go to settings/firewall/applications,pinholes, and DMZ



7. click "Add a new user-defined application"



8. for convenience name it minecraft1



9. Select TCP



10. Port should be set to 25565 in both boxes



11. leave map to host port blank



12. Map to Host Port should be set to 25565



13. DO NOT choose an application type



14. Select "add to list"



15. go back and create a new user-defined application



16. Name it minecraft2



17. Select UDP



18. Repeat steps 10-14



19. Go back to the Applications, Pinholes, and DMZ page



20. Find your LAN IP address.



(if you followed the previous steps correctly then you should already know what it is)



21. Put it in the "Enter IP address" search bar and click "Choose"



22. Scroll to the "Application List" and filter applications by "User-Defined"



23. Select and add both minecraft1 and minecraft2. If it says that they somehow interfere with each other then you did not follow the previous steps correctly.



24. Click the "Save" button once you finish adding the applications to your device.



From here it SHOULD work. If not then I have listed some other options to try that may be getting in the way.



25. Go to "Advanced Configuration" under Firewall on the at&t page and make sure Stealth Mode and Block Ping are not enabled.



26. Allow all the traffic through the Firewall



27. Disable all Attack Detection



28. Go to Windows Firewall and allow all JAVA processes to have private and public access, and enable them all.



29. Disable your AntiVirus Firewall/'s



WARNING!! These things can make your PC vulnerable so I recommend writing down what your original setting are before changing them in case something goes wrong. Also figure out what does, and does not need to be enabled so you don't have a bunch of stuff being allowed through the Firewall.



Testing your connection



Use any online port checker tool. Very simple.



Finalizing the server



At this point you should know if your ports are open.



1. Next go to your servers.properties file in your server folder.



2. Set the server IP to run on your LAN IP address



3. Double check that it is also running on port 25565



If it is giving an error then you probably set the IP as your external IP (the IP your friends use to connect to you)



Make sure it is running on your LAN IP aka your internal IP address



Testing your connection pt. 2



Go to this website https://dinnerbone.com/minecraft/tools/status/



and test to see if the server is up. If you did everything correctly then it should work



This is optional, but have a friend or a different computer attempt to connect to your server. This is a definitive way to tell if your server is up.



If you have any questions please ask. I think I might be an expert in this thing in particular now after all the stuff I went through.


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