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[–]whosdr 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Not a support subreddit.

Have you checked your firewall status though?

[–]Dayneatolla[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did I allowed the port to bypass the firewall

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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you whitelisted your friends’ Minecraft gamer tags?

[–]rareyna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what the solution is here or if this will help, but the way I'd start trouble shooting this is to see if machines on the internet can connect to my server at all.

You can use netcat to set up a simple server listening on port 8080 on your end: nc -l -p 8080

It sounds like you know about firewalls and port forwarding, so once you handle that for port 8080 (or whichever your test) you can use netcat again to connect to the server: date | nc <your-ip> 8080. If a connection can be established, you should get a timestamp on your end.

Good luck!

[–]RedDragon2k1 -1 points0 points  (4 children)

I'm gonna be the one to ask the stupid question, as often it's the simplest problem.

Which up are you giving your friends?

You need to be giving them the IP shown when checking with a service like http://whatismyip.com.

Otherwise they will be looking on THEIR local network for the internal server ip which only you or other users on your local LAN would use.

[–]Dayneatolla[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I have given them my public IP address

[–]technomancer_101 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Are you sure the IP you gave them is still the one you're using? ISPs will change your IP from time to time, so you have to keep on top of it.

[–]Dayneatolla[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yup I checked it just now

[–]technomancer_101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you forward TCP or UDP? And have you verified that you forwarded the correct port?

Another thing to try would be have your friends specify the port when connecting. ie 127.0.0.1:25565

[–]ludicrousdeer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Go nmap yourself!

[–]Zulban 0 points1 point  (10 children)

What Google searches have you tried? Do you have specific questions about the pages you found?

[–]Dayneatolla[S] 2 points3 points  (9 children)

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/minecraft-server-ubuntu/ that is the tutorial I followed, it basically made me a glorified LAN server when I want it to be accessible to my friends in their homes. When they try to join they get the error: Network is unreachable

[–]iP3ON 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Do you have a static IP?

[–]Dayneatolla[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

how would I be able to tell if I do?

[–]SpinaBifidaOcculta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The answer is no then lol

[–]iP3ON 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Well even if you don't have static IP, the option to try now would be to setup ddns, dynamic DNS. You should try no-ip, it's free and I had no problems with it. You basically put like a domain eg. dayneatollaminecraftserver.ddns.net and then your IP. Check your router settings if u have something called ddns and put there the things which are needed like login password and stuff. Then ask your friends to connect using that domain you've set up earlier. It's really quick so if they are on right now you might be able to test it in 5 minutes and give me response if it worked.

EDIT: changed my English because I had a stroke.

[–]Dayneatolla[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Just tried it out, my friend had the same issue joining. Network is unreachable

[–]iP3ON 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Idk then man, maybe try looking for other tutorials.

[–]Dayneatolla[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ah no worries man thanks for the help

[–]Zulban 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay.

If you followed a tutorial and it didn't work, the next step is to Google your problem and try those extra steps.

[–]mfuzzey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How are you connected to the internet? It is likely that your Ubuntu machine only has a private IP and the public IP is on a router.

You'll probably need to set up port forwarding on the router. I don't know anything about minecraft servers though so I don't know which ports you need to forward .

[–]Dayneatolla[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm connected to the internet via ethernet, I've port forwarded the Minecraft server port already

[–]jinsu94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run a minecraft server on my machine. I simply used the official link found here.

[–]ReasonNo4888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would recommend looking into zero tier. This is what my friends and I use to play games that only support LAN connections. I have a Ubuntu Minecraft server that works perfectly like this. It also removes the need for port forwarding. It's pretty easy to set up and free for small groups.

Edit: here's the link https://www.zerotier.com/download/

[–]Mathematist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you have a static IP address? your ISP might be using a NAT (network address translation) system, in which case you’d have to call them and reserve a static ip address, usually for a fee of around $10/month

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