Need help — My local IP doesn’t work

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Hi, I’m new to creating servers. This is my first one, and I can’t join it. I hosted it on MC Server Soft, and I used Playit.gg to make the IP public.

I know the server works because my friends can connect, but I can’t. It’s weird because I can’t connect using either my local IP or the public IP. I’ve been reading posts, and from what I understand, you can’t use the public IP because of something called NAT reflection. But that only applies to the public IP, so I don’t understand why my local IP doesn’t work either.

Things to clarify:

• The server is connected to the exact same router, so it’s the same network.
• I already created inbound and outbound firewall rules to allow port 25565 (TCP and UDP).
• I changed the DNS and flushed the cache using ipconfig /flushdns.
• I left the server IP blank in server.properties.
• I’ve tried using localhost, my local IP, and port 25565, but none of them work.
• Only when using my local IP, the “Loading world” screen sometimes appears, but I never actually join. It just goes back to an error. Sometimes I get:
  • internal exception java.net.socketexception connection reset
  • or connection timed out getsockopt

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