Help! I cannot connect to the server, what do I do?
Lately, there have been a few reports of people who are unable to connect to the server. They receive errors from minecraft such as: "io.netty.channel.abstractchannel$annotatedconnectexception connection refused" If you have received this message and do not know how to solve it, don't worry! I will help you out.
The problem:
After entering a server IP address into Minecraft it will use the DNS(Domain name service) tools to translate this to a physical IP address.
Some computers will store this IP address for faster navigating the next time, this is where the issue is. (DNS caching) The server direct IP was recently changed and as such the old direct IP is no longer valid. (This will not change anything for you)
play.sentinelcraft.net:25565 will always stay the same, I am talking about things that happen in the background.
And the issue (DNS caching) is client side. (your side).
Hmm.. okay, but how do I fix it?
There are two ways of fixing this problem.
Fix 1:
- open command prompt by typing cmd in search bar
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- type ipconfig/flushdns
- restart minecraft and try joining on play.sentinelcraft.net
- If this failed and didn?t fix the issue, please try fix number two.
Fix 2:
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- Click on Network and Internet.
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- Click on Network and Sharing Center.
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- Click the Change adapter settings option in the left pane.
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- Right-click the network interface connected to the internet, and select the Properties option.
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- Select and check the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) option.
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- Click the Properties button.
- Click the Use the following DNS server addresses option.
- Type your "preferred" and "alternate" DNS addresses.
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Use any of the next 3 combinations, recommended is google DNS (most stable.)
Google Public DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
Cloudflare: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
- Click the OK button.
- Click the Close button.
- restart minecraft and try joining on play.sentinelcraft.net