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=false so 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.