Port Control
Hi everyone:
I want to open port 25565 on my router in order to host a game server. I have completed the following steps carefully:
1) Login to the router.
2) Go to Forwarding.
3) Go to Virtual Server tab.
4) Click "Add New" button.
5) On "Service Port" input "25565".
6) On "IP Address" input my private IP.
7) On "Internal Port" input "25565".
8) Set "Protocol" to "ALL".
9) Set "Status" to "Enabled".
10) Set "Common Service Port" to "---Please Select---".
11) Click "Save".
Since i am also using No-IP's dynamic dns to host a game server, i have configured the router's ddns doing the following:
1) Login to the router.
2) Go to Dynamic DNS tab.
3) Set "Service Provider" to "No-IP".
4) On "Domain Name" input my No-IP domain name.
5) On "Username" input my No-IP username.
6) On "Password" input my No-IP password.
7) Tick "Enable DDNS" checkbox.
8) Click the "Login" button.
9) Click "Save"
After doing all the above steps i tried to connect to my server, in vain. I checked if my port was open in www.canyouseeme.org, but i received a "Connection timed out" error message.
I hope someone can help me.
Many thanks in advance.
T.M.P.