FIXED: Dedicated server is only showing in LAN and cannot be accessed by friends

[Reivilox]

Alright so I've been on this for 8hours now, Before anyone says it: YES I PORTFORWARDED, I even tried and ran a Minecraft server on the 7777 and 27015 port and it works fine, But if I launch the Ark Server every Port checking website says they are still closed.

Every forum post or what ever I found with this exact problem ended up, with people giving up or not giving any more answers.

My Firewall exceptions are fine, it's even completly closed for now.

Also my friends can see it, in their Steam apps if they enter my IP in their favorite servers but they get an error when they try to join.

Pls if you ever had that problem and fixed it halp.


Fix: Server wasnt booting on proper port. Opening port range 1-65535 fixed it. But is clearly not the ideal way.

[margalus]

Did you open 27016 also? And did you do tcp or udp or both?

[Lady Wolfbane]

is your modem a NAT modem, only curious cause its the only answer I found out there on the web to explain why my server did the same? Otherwise I am curious to here how this could be answered too. I searched for 4mths before I quit and bought one. I would rather run one but I aslo discovered my desktop could not handle it till I upgrade it more too.Have no fuunds to do that at this time so...

[TGrable]

Try opening a port range of 7777-7778 and 27015-27016 and see that does anything. If not you might have a router paired with a ISP gateway which will act as a second firewall so in that scenario you would need to get the login for the gateway and also forward those ports.

[crimsondrac]

Ok, are you specifically identifying those ports in your server launch string/batch file?

[Reivilox]

Originally posted by margalus:

Did you open 27016 also? And did you do tcp or udp or both?

Both and I have opened port range 7777-7780 , 27014-27050.

Originally posted by LittleJ:

is your modem a NAT modem, only curious cause its the only answer I found out there on the web to explain why my server did the same? Otherwise I am curious to here how this could be answered too. I searched for 4mths before I quit and bought one. I would rather run one but I aslo discovered my desktop could not handle it till I upgrade it more too.Have no fuunds to do that at this time so...

Yes, does that bother with something? My local IP settings are fine btw.

[Reivilox]

Originally posted by crimsondrac:

Ok, are you specifically identifying those ports in your server launch string/batch file?

I'm using ARK Server Manager and yes those are the specified port, I even tried without the software and got same result can only LAN.

[Lady Wolfbane]

I am not a network type tech but still learnin the ropes on networking. However according to the research in some regions it matters a lot I guess. I have 2 modems even did what my ISP said to do when having a router and modem and all kinds of crazy stuff. But it always came back to my main modem being NAT I wish I could understand why xause over 98% of the market on routers and modems are all NAT designed so very hard to find one and also to work with ISP plus not break your wallet to Boot.

[Lady Wolfbane]

Hell I even went as far as asking my ISP to set it up to portforward for me and well we WON'T go there, to say the least my ISP company sucks in almost every single direction u can sneeze

[Reivilox]

Alright, So I fixed my problem. And to not be an ass Im gonna tell u guys what I did. I OPENEND LITHERALLY EVERY PORT from 1 to 65535. So my server is not running on the specified ports but on some random one. Still trying to figure out which one so I can do it in the proper way. But at least I got it working.

[Gran]

Usually the Server tells you on which Ports it's running in the Dos-Box that opens.
Or you could take a look on how it gets started (?Port=8010?QueryPort=8012)
And then forward those UDP Ports in your Router.

edit: and you might want to post your startup command so someone might point you in the right direction.

[Reivilox]

it says Port=7777 and QueryPort=27015

I really dont get wtf is happening and why opening only those port didnt work...

Is there any port I should've open idk about maybe that's the problem.

[JoeWhizer]

I have currently 4 servers running and my forwarding looks like this:
https://imgur.com/a/VdWJ2

All working

[Reivilox]

Originally posted by JoeWhizer:

I have currently 4 servers running and my forwarding looks like this:
https://imgur.com/a/VdWJ2

All working

Thanks for help but that's pretty much already what I got :/

https://imgur.com/a/3Yn0i

[TGrable]

Originally posted by Reivilox:

Alright, So I fixed my problem. And to not be an ass Im gonna tell u guys what I did. I OPENEND LITHERALLY EVERY PORT from 1 to 65535. So my server is not running on the specified ports but on some random one. Still trying to figure out which one so I can do it in the proper way. But at least I got it working.

If I was you I would figure it out quickly and close off all the ports you aren't using. It would literally be a piece of cake to enter your network and potentially take admin/root ownership of a machine and then cause all sorts of trouble for you.

To the person who says they have both a modem(gateway) and a router.. It sounds to me atleast like your modem is a gateway (has more than 1 lan port and the ability for wifi) if that is the case then you would want to call your ISP and have them set that gateway to BRIDGE mode. This basically disabled everything on that gateway except for the LAN and WAN ports.. it essentially turns the unit into nothing but a modem and allows all the data to pass to your router. The reason you want to enable bridge mode is because it disables the firewall for one and moves the dhcp server to the router so you aren't running into some weird scenarios.

If you are unable to get the isp to put the gateway in to bridge mode.. then you have a few other options. You could get the login information for the device and log in to it and either disable the firewall or set the routers IP as a DMZ. Anyways hope this helps.

[JoeWhizer]

Originally posted by Reivilox:

Originally posted by JoeWhizer:

I have currently 4 servers running and my forwarding looks like this:
https://imgur.com/a/VdWJ2

All working

Thanks for help but that's pretty much already what I got :/

https://imgur.com/a/3Yn0i

Your problem could be "WAN"

Does it works when you forward the ports directly to the network adresss of the server?
And what router do you use?