Authentication servers are down [duplicate]
im hosting a server and this error will always display, only on my server! Im hosting on Ubuntu server OS, so how can I fix this error for my server?
This is home-hosted
This means that the servers which authenticate Minecraft users when they log onto your server cannot be reached. This could be for two reasons:
- Your server cannot reach the internet
This opens up a rabbit hole of networking issues which I'm not very knowledgeable about, and would need more information to help anyway. Hopefully someone else can suggest something.
- The servers are actually down
While rare, I have seen this happen before in which case it passed in a few hours. In the meantime you can set the online-mode= option in your server.properties file to false. Please note that this represents a minor security risk as hackers can connect to your server with fabricated usernames. This also should allow players on your LAN to connect if you're not connected to the internet correctly, but if you're having internet troubles then you will likely find your server to be very lonely...