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I used to be able to host with AT&T, And now i can't for some reason. I've tried going into my router, adding a port of 25565, and something else, and it says it cannot bind to port (I selected my computer, not another computer in my house).
Any help?
Leave the server IP blank, this is an advanced feature to set only if you're running multiple servers on a single computer, with multiple network cards, and you want to dedicate, or limit the servers, to running on specific cards.
You need to:
1) Run the server
2) Setup port forwarding to your internal IP
3) Give out the external IP
Leave the server IP blank, this is an advanced feature to set only if you're running multiple servers on a single computer, with multiple network cards, and you want to dedicate, or limit the servers, to running on specific cards.
You need to:
1) Run the server
2) Setup port forwarding to your internal IP
3) Give out the external IP
Not exactly. There are many, many situations when you'd fill in the server-ip and almost all the ones that are relevant don't necessarily involve having multiple network cards/adapters.
The server-ip field should be filled in when the adapter itself is issued that IP address. Take for example, in the typical home-hosted scenario, YOUR ROUTER has the IP address and it uses NAT-translation and issues out 192.x.x.x addresses. Your computer has absolutely no knowledge of the external IP address because it has been issued a 192.x.x.x.
This is the reason it is inappropriate to fill in the server-ip, not because he doesn't have multiple cards, but because you'd be filling in a foreign, unrecognizable IP to the server.
If, for example, a router was not used and the modem plugged directly into the single-network-adapter computer, the NIC of that computer would be running off that 'external' IP address, rather than the internal one. Such a scenario here is only one example of when server-ip should be filled: anytime NAT is avoided and IPs are issued to the NIC itself.
Another example is a dedicated server you may rent (there aren't multiple network cards, necessarily). In the event you only have one, you're still NAT-free and thus you would fill in the server-ip.
I used to be able to host with AT&T, And now i can't for some reason. I've tried going into my router, adding a port of 25565, and something else, and it says it cannot bind to port (I selected my computer, not another computer in my house).
Any help?
Okay but then people cannot connect to the server i thought
So leave it blank, and give people my external IP?
EDIT: I cannot connect to my server, so im pretty sure no1 else can xD
Leave the server IP blank, this is an advanced feature to set only if you're running multiple servers on a single computer, with multiple network cards, and you want to dedicate, or limit the servers, to running on specific cards.
You need to:
1) Run the server
2) Setup port forwarding to your internal IP
3) Give out the external IP
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Advanced Guide to server-ip and server-port settings.
I'm so cool cause I say I'm cool like all the cool kids.
Not exactly. There are many, many situations when you'd fill in the server-ip and almost all the ones that are relevant don't necessarily involve having multiple network cards/adapters.
The server-ip field should be filled in when the adapter itself is issued that IP address. Take for example, in the typical home-hosted scenario, YOUR ROUTER has the IP address and it uses NAT-translation and issues out 192.x.x.x addresses. Your computer has absolutely no knowledge of the external IP address because it has been issued a 192.x.x.x.
This is the reason it is inappropriate to fill in the server-ip, not because he doesn't have multiple cards, but because you'd be filling in a foreign, unrecognizable IP to the server.
If, for example, a router was not used and the modem plugged directly into the single-network-adapter computer, the NIC of that computer would be running off that 'external' IP address, rather than the internal one. Such a scenario here is only one example of when server-ip should be filled: anytime NAT is avoided and IPs are issued to the NIC itself.
Another example is a dedicated server you may rent (there aren't multiple network cards, necessarily). In the event you only have one, you're still NAT-free and thus you would fill in the server-ip.