In my server I have portforwarded 25565 and enabled UDP and TCP. localhost works for me but the IP says Cannot Reach Server. I have the newest version of craftbukkit installed, my run.bat file, and none of my IP's have changed at all. Help?
For you, yourself, connecting from the same computer that the server is running on, you can only use localhost (or 127.0.0.1). You won't be able to connect using your external IP address. You would give your external IP to your friends for them to connect with. Now if they're getting the error as well, then you have an issue with your setup.
So yea what he said.... if your on the same computer has the server I use my internal ip address.. if I wanna connect from a friends computer at his house I would use the public ip address and to figure that out google ip chicken
When I first set up my server I was aloud to log on to my external IP address and same with my friends. After a few days this problem occured bump EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
You don't need the <ip>:25565 if it is :25565. You only need it when that changes. :localhost :25565 or :<port> 127.0.0.1
yea localhost works atm but not external like it did before i did not understand anything in that post.. EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
I must use 10.0.0.2 or localhost to connect. Your friends use example.sytes.net, 99:00:33:444:25565 or whatever.
Awesome, so use localhost. You're not supposed to be able to connect to YOUR external IP address from the LAN side of your router. If it was working at some point, and now it isn't, then something must have changed. You can either try to figure out what changed and how to fix it, or just use what's *supposed* to work: localhost.
last time i checked nothing has changed except i needed to port forward again thats all and localhost connects you to your own server/IP right? same for everybody else?
localhost = Whatever computer you're currently at. If you're trying to connect to a server (any type of server) from the same physical computer that the server is running on, you'd use localhost (or 127.0.0.1).
Ok listen i'm going to briefly explain what you are and you aen't suposed to do and what you can and can't do: Supposed to do: You are supposed to connect to you own sever using either localhost, 127.0.0.1, 127.1, or :<port> and you friends are supposed to connect using your external ip address and i you have a custom port besides 25565 it would be yourexternalip:<port> Not Supposed to do: You are not supposed to connect to you own server using your external ip address What you can do: Connect to you own server using your local ip or :<port> What you can't do: Connect to you server using your external ip I hope this cleared up your problem if it didn't pm and i'll try to explain it further.
I can't connect to my own server with my external, same with my friends. Before, i could and i was allowed to connect with my external, same with my friends but i used localhost to connect.
Ok if your friends can't connect using your external ip then you portforwarded wrong or your router isn't allowing the port through so you would have to set your firewall setting for your router to low or none and to make sure you know your external ip go to whatismyip.com and to check if you port forwarded corectly go to http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ and it automaticly has your external ip there and your server must be running for it to detect the port.
my router is working perfectly i portforwarded perfectly i have turned off my firewall setting for a long time and i am using the correct external ip
Is it still not working? Well here goes: try connecting to your server from another computer on the network. Use 192.168.*.*:25565, the two stars represent parts of the LAN IP I just cant know, you will need to open up command prompt and run "ipconfig" (the IP Address is what you want). Then try connecting. Also, does the server have a Static LAN IP and do you have a Static External IP? As c0mp said: Very true, but not always. Hope this gets fixed soon!
It has happened again but the same solution does not work Fixed again EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
