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igHunterKiller
Aspirant
May 18, 2021
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C6300 Port Forwarding not working

I am struggling to make port forwarding happen. Please find attached a png that is a set of screenshots of what I have set up. What did I get wrong? I have a static IP configured for the server (it...
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    igHunterKiller
    May 30, 2021

    Ah thanks for the keyword 'loopback'. I did the test with the external IP and it wasn't working. So I tried a different game just to be extra-sure, and that worked. What's different? I guessed it was maybe 'Java' for Minecraft. 'java' and 'loopback' led me to some ineffective things to change, but then I came across this one:

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAEkA2LEyb8

     

    There's more than a few Java-related items that Windows firewall blocks, so enabling them all got things working again.

     

    Thanks for walking me through the elimination testing - that keyword of 'loopback' sparked me down a path I had not gone down deep enough.

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igHunterKiller
Aspirant
May 18, 2021

The router seems to know things are happening, it just actively shuts them out.

 

Also please note: I am using NO-IP to abstract my WAN IP address. I've tried that and the direct IP from internal machines and also from external machines.

 

P.S. Sorry, I guess I posted in the wrong section. I can't figure out how to move this post.