Nintendo Switch Minecraft DNS

Simple DNS proxy to allow accessing private servers on the Nintendo Switch

get started

1. clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/GeekyDeaks/Nintendo-Minecraft-DNS.git

2. build the image

   docker build -t mcb-dns .

3. run the server (replace the IP address with the server IP)

   docker run --rm -d -p 53:53/udp --add-host=mco.lbsg.net:192.168.152.139 mcb-dns

4. configure the switch to use the docker service as the DNS

   System Settings / Internet / Internet Settings / Change Settings / DNS Settings / Primary DNS

5. Start Minecraft and connect to the server

   Play / Servers / Lifeboat / Join Server

how it works

The Switch version of Minecraft does not allow connecting to arbitrary remote servers, but it does have a small fixed list of Approved servers. This workaround rewrites the DNS lookup for the Lifeboat server (mco.lbsg.net) by using a small dnsmasq docker instance

credits

This is inspired by the following repo: https://github.com/ConnorGraham/Minecraft-Nintendo-Switch-Private-Server.git

Which in turn is based on an idea posted on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/a01tq8/bedrock_dedicated_server_for_the_switch/