I have am running a new Bedrock server, latest version. Everything seems to work fine. I have both correct ports forwarded and TCP/UDP for both. I can connect from Bedrock clients over the internet by WAN IPv4 address, and by WAN IPv6 address.
I have dynamic DNS set up (for quite some time) and the hostname works for everything else. When I "Add Server" in the Bedrock client, and use that WAN hostname (either port for IPv4 or IPv6), Bedrock client is "Unable to connect to world." I've been trying everything I can think of (I have good but older networking experience), and have been unable to figure it out. Unfortunately Bedrock (both client and server) do not give much debug/troubleshooting feedback.
I can ping my dyn-WAN hostname, and it returns the correct IP v4 and v6 addresses, the same ones that work if used in Add Server.
I am also running a longstanding Minecraft Java server on a different machine. We connect to it using the same dyn-WAN hostname, but totally different ports (numbers aren't even close), and that has always worked fine.
Searching all the usual places hasn't turned up any issues/advice about Bedrock and server hostnames.
My best guesses (which I have no practical way to verify) are:
- Bedrock simply doesn't work right when given host/domain names and glitches out somehow. (I can't find any pure Bedrock server hostnames to test online, they're all Java/Geyser crossplay.)
- ???
UPDATE: I did find some information that Bedrock server requires a CNAME DNS entry for clients to be able to connect by hostname, for some reason. I'm still trying after adding a CNAME record to my dynamic DNS host. Perhaps this is the actual issue, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. I can nslookup my new CNAME record (it's been up for a few names) but my Bedrock clients are still not connecting, so I don't know yet.
