Minecraft PE

[support200]

I tried it on my Galaxy S20.

[dannyakarudy]

Some troubleshooting steps I've taken


Tried different upstream servers
Tried disabling the filter entirely for the phone IP
Setup an entirely new NxFilter instance on a different machine
Your steps earlier to disable the cache

Things that do work:
Anything that doesn't have DNS set to the NxFilter address such as:
Setting the phone wifi DNS to the router
or an external DNS server
or another internal domain DNS server
or bypassing the network entirely to play on data

The only commonality I've seen so far where it isn't working is when I have DNS pointed to NxFilter. I can do pretty much anything else, no internet connectivity issues showing for browsing web etc. but cannot load MC on the Android devices.

I'm running out of things to try... I think as another data point I'll install an NxFilter instance at my dads house next time I go over there and see if I have the same issue. The kids currently don't have an issue over there, but he's not running NxFilter.

[support200]

I will try the commercial version with my phone as well. If it doesn't work, maybe I can find something.

[support200]

I tried Minecraft commercial version on my Galaxy 20. I use NxFilter when I install it and play it. I could create a new world and go back and forth. There's no problem at all. I attached the screenshot below. Your case is weird but we couldn't recreate it on our side.

[dannyakarudy]

Out of curiosity, are you running nxfilter on linux or windows? - Just trying to figure out any potential differences of why it would work for you and not for me.

[support200]

I run my test machine on Windows. However, this is a Java software. It runs on JVM. I don't think OS makes any difference. And it's also a network software. To clients it's all same.

[dannyakarudy]

Took it to my dad's house and it was working fine from there.... At least that's what I thought. Turns out he hasn't disable IPV6 and the phone was just bypassing nxfilter entirely. Out of curiousity, are you running IPV6? Is yours perhaps bypassing the NXFilter entirely?

[support200]

What do you mean by 'hasn't disable IPV6'? You mean that you disabled IPV6 on your phone?

When I tested it, I disabled DHCP on my phone and pointed NxFilter as its DNS server.

If you tell me how to disable IPV6 then I will see if I can recrate your problem.

[dannyakarudy]

Can't disable IPV6 on wifi in Android to my knowledge. Yes, I disabled IPV6 on my router so my network won't pass any IPV6 traffic. I believe I did this to keep nxfilter from being bypassed in the first place.

I did the same as you and hard set my ip configuration at my dad's house. But even setting the phone to a static IP and hard setting the nxfilter for DNS didn't elicit the appropriate response. In fact I set the default to block all and was still able to access anything and everything which meant the phone was using ipv6 dns to bypass the nxfilter.

[support200]

I just tested my phone again while I checked 'Block All' on my policy. Everyting's blocked as expected. In my router, there's no option for disabling IPV6 and in my memory I didn't do such thing on my router.

And when I tested Minecraft, I saw a lot of Minecraft related DNS requests going through NxFilter.

I also don't think there's any option for using IPV6 DNS server when you use static IP for Android phones.