I have been trying to get a minecraft server running for some time now to no avail. I apologize for the fact that this is not as technically advanced a question as is intended for this forum, and that I am not a programmer, but I have been trying to make this server work for months and no amount of my own research or posting on other forums has yet helped. If anyone could help me here, or perhaps direct me to someplace else, I would very much appreciate it.
I'm using the 1.8.7 exe server program, on a windows 8 computer with an ASUS RT-AC66R. My ISP is comcast, and my family recently switched to business class internet for my parents' home business. Oddly, the server worked before this switch.
I have ensured that I have forwarded my port correctly, and tried ports other than Minecraft's default 25565. Even after forwarding a port through my router, port checkers still say that the port is closed. I have tried setting up a static IP, putting my local IP in the router's DMZ, shutting off firewalls and anti-virus programs, and making rules and exceptions in program and port firewalls. Nothing has worked so far.
I have read that the error message I have been receiving is usually either due to firewall problems or because the server is not responding to attempts to connect. It should not be the former, unless there is still some firewall trick I haven't tried. I've read that some ISPs block certain ports, but comcast does claim to block any of the ports I have tried. If it is an issue with the server itself, how do I know?
Again, I am sorry that neither this topic nor myself are completely appropriate for this forum, but I am desperate after trying to make this work for so long.
netstat -abno | findstr 25565
. if you dont get output, check to confirm that the application is running and correctly configured to use 25565. Also confirm that if the application supports interface binding, that it is bound to your LAN IP or to 0.0.0.0, but not to 127.0.0.1.