Minecraft Server: Connection refused [duplicate]
Solution 1:
Two possible things:
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Have you port forwarded. You must do that if you are going to connect with an external ip. This is configuring your router's firewall to let connections to that port through. A great tutorial here.But remember: (A)You need to configure port
25565
and (B) Your external ip address will change so tell everybody and you may have to update config.- Have you given your people the
external
ip. That is if you go to here google will tell you yourPublic IP
- Have you given your people the
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