DNS failing to route for Minecraft server, error most likely SRV Record

[jayy.dizzle]

Hello,

In the past I’ve ran Minecraft servers before off my computer, port forwarded, connected a domain thru cloudflare, setup DNS and voila everything works, yet that was some months ago. Here we are now and I’m struggling to get a good connection.

To confirm: My port for the server is open (42068) and I can connect to the server with my public ipv4 and port.

I have an A record domain pointing to my public IPv4 with DNS only (non proxy) but because im running on a certain port that isn’t 25565, I need a SRV record

SRV
_minecraft._tcp.www
0 5 42069 slavemidgets.com
DNS only

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It is something to do with the SRV record because when running on minecraft default port 25565, there isn’t as much trouble as usually I can connect. The problem has been a thing since the formatting for the SRV records changed. Used to have a protocol box, then service, e.g.

I’m wondering if there is anyway to fix this?

Also: I ran through a DNS propogation and the A record domain propogates to my IP, SRV record does not propogate but wondering if thats just because it is a SRV record

[Laudian]

@jayy.dizzle

SRV record does not propogate

Works for me:

dig +short _minecraft._tcp.www.slavemidgets.com srv
0 5 42069 slavemidgets.com.

Did you intentionally put www into the SRV record? That means that players have to enter www.slavemidgets.com. to connect to your server.

[Laudian]

@jayy.dizzle

Under DNS checker it won’t show up in the SRV list

Yes, it does:

DNS Checker - DNS Check Propagation Tool

I don’t have the correct Minecraft version, but it does seem to be working for me:

[jayy.dizzle]

hmmm, okay. can you try without the www now? I changed something also I don’t know if this matters but I am trying to connect via a vpn. the WWW was to test if I needed that but try just slavemidgets.com now

[Laudian]

All looking good:

dig +short _minecraft._tcp.slavemidgets.com srv
0 5 42069 slavemidgets.com.