Minecraft – DNS SRV Record Correct Setup

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I am trying to setup DNS SRV records on my domain so that my players are able to connect without entering the IP address and port of my Minecraft server.

I've successfully created an A record and it's pointing to the right IP. Now, I have to create a SRV record to point to right port, but all my tries ended with connection refused in the Minecraft game client.

The service that I want to reach is sitting on 93.91.250.130:27296 and I can successfully connect to it by IP address and port.

My Current setup is:

A record

Domain         Target
mine.rlnd.cz   93.91.250.130

SRV record

Domain                    Target         Priority    Weight    Port
_minecraft._tcp.rlnd.cz   mine.rlnd.cz   5           5         27296

What am I doing wrong?

Best Answer

The SRV record should be created for _minecraft._tcp.mine.rlnd.cz, not _minecraft._tcp.rlnd.cz.

More Info:

SRV records are not always directly under the domain name - _service._proto.domain.com. I think this may be a fairly common misconception with SRV, partly because the poster-child application for it, Exchange/Outlook, uses the domain portion of your email address and a lot of information online generally tells you that 'you need an SRV record for your domain'.

If you enter a.b.domain.com into an SRV aware application, it will lookup the SRV record for _service._proto.a.b.domain.com.

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