custom-ip.md

Adding a Custom IP to your Minecraft server:

Warning

This tutorial doesn't work on Bedrock/Windows 10/Pocket Edition servers! They don't support SRV records.

If you already own a domain on Freenom or any other domain registrar, you can skip some of the domain registration steps and when you get to changing Nameservers of the domain, if you are unsure how you do it on your domain registrar, Google can help you!

IP won't change on the panel! You can use both old and the new IP you created with help of this tutorial to connect to your server.

If you are doing this tutorial from a mobile phone or tablet, on the Cloudflare page after step number 11), make sure to click on the context menu of your browser (usually ... three vertical dots) and check the Request Desktop Site option. If by any chance you don't have such option, use a computer or you can't complete all the steps successfully.

[!DANGER] Beware, the server IP can change without warning. You will have to change the IP on the SRV record, if the server IP has changed.

Step 1:

Get yourself a free domain from https://freenom.com/. "fmcshelptutorial.tk" is just an example. Instead of it type in whatever you want your IP to be.

Step 2:

Change the duration of the domain from 3 Months to 12 Months.

Step 3:

Enter your email address and click Verify My Email Address.

Step 4:

Open your email inbox in a new tab and open the email sent by Freenom. If you don't see it, make sure to check "Spam" folder. Click on the link to verify your email address.

Step 5:

On the next page enter any random info but your password and click the Continue button.

Step 6:

Go to https://cloudflare.com/. Click Sign up button then register as usual.

Step 7:

Click the Add Site button found on the home page.

Step 8:

Replace fmcshelptutorial.tk with your domain (your new IP) you registered on https://freenom.com/.

Step 9:

Choose the Free plan and click Confirm Plan button.

Step 10:

This is where you will link your domain to your minecraft server.

Step 11:

Change A to SRV Record

Step 12:

Type in following information:

Service name: _minecraft

If you want to use yourdomain.com as your servers IP, type @ in the Name field

or

For play.yourdomain.com, type play in the Name field

or

For mc.yourdomain.com, type mc in the Name field

or

You can type anything in Name field for example: If you type something you can use something.yourdomain.com to connect to your Minecraft server

If you want to use yourdomain.com, play.yourdomain.com as well as / or mc.yourdomain.com, repeat steps 12) - 15)

Click the Save button to continue.

Step 13:

Set the priority to 0 and the weight to 5 and continue to the next step without saving.

Step 14:

Copy the Node DNS IP from your minecraft server and PORT and paste them in the correct area and click the Save button.

Step 15:

Click the Add Record button and you will see it appear in the list below.

Step 16:

After adding the SRV record and checking if everything is correct, click the Continue button.

Step 17:

Go back to the Freenom site and click the Manage Domain button. If you closed it, don't worry! Go to https://my.freenom.com/clientarea.php?action=domains.

Step 18:

Click on Management Tools and then Nameservers.

Step 19:

Choose use custom nameservers on the Freenom site, copy over Nameserver 1 from Cloudflare to Freenom and do the same for Nameserver 2. Leave the other Nameservers blank, click the Change Nameservers button on the Freenom site, then click the Done, check nameservers button on the Cloudflare site.

Step 20:

Click the Re-check now button and wait at least an hour.

Step 21:

Refresh your page and you will see the following. You might now be able to use your new IP.

If you would like to check if your IP works. Go to https://mcsrvstat.us/ and type in your IP and click the Get server status button. Click Show debug info for info on the hostname, IP, and port.