The Server is not visible in Network/Friends Tab

[Gegh]

Logfile:

[2022-11-02 13:20:06:203 INFO] Please note that LAN discovery will not function for this server.

This seems to be related to https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/BDS-1094?focusedId=1208365&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-1208365

Do we need a 'enable-lan-visibility' enviroment variable?

[itzg]

Great find. Yes, looks like that needs to be added to https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-bedrock-server/blob/master/property-definitions.json. A contribution would be great.

[arogulin]

I was going to make a PR but during local testing I noticed 2 things:

1. enable-lan-visibility property is not yet supported by the server (and that was also mentioned in the bug linked by @Gegh). I did not find it in server.properties that I downloaded from https://minecraft.azureedge.net/bin-linux/bedrock-server-1.19.41.01.zip. I set it anyways (enable-lan-visibility=true) but that did not affect that log message, it printed Please note that LAN discovery will not function for this server again.
2. I actually could not reproduce the issue - I was able to see the server in the Friends list as before, so that log message probably does not mean anything (yet), the server is visible no matter if enable-lan-visibility is set or not. I remember my son mentioned a couple weeks ago that he did not see the server in the list, so I was under assumption that it's still the case, but I think it was just a version mismatch between the client (iPad) and the server. As I restarted the server it downloaded the latest 1.19.41.01 and is perfectly visible to the latest iOS client. Or maybe they fixed the issue with visibility in this latest version.

[itzg]

I have found their LAN discovery to be extremely sporadic with at least iOS client for years now. FWIW, I went ahead and added the enable-lan-visibility mapping.

[scott-force]

Thanks for responding to this quickly. Will this require a github release to take effect, or is downloading the new dockerhub image sufficient?

[itzg]

The new variable is included in the latest image.

[scott-force]

Reporting back in hopes this helps someone

I have found their LAN discovery to be extremely sporadic with at least iOS client for years now

I noticed this as well. I have multiple computers in my house I connect with, and one seems to nearly never see the local game, every once in a while my server will appear in the local game section though.

The other computer will see the local game 100% of the time. No idea what is causing one to see it and the other not to, but it seems like it's probably not a server issue, rather a local network config or visibility issue of some sort.

[AurimasNav]

I can connect via android by adding the server IP, but from PS5 it is not visible as LAN server.

[jurgenweber]

Yeah, I am wondering why it isn't either but I am running it in k8s, but the port is just open on my lan but I can not see it in the friends list. Do you only need the one port 19132 open to see it? Is there more network config to do?

I can connect to the server under 'services' but I would really like the LAN discovery

[jurgenweber]

I solved this last night but adding

        hostNetwork: true
        extraPodSpec:
          hostNetwork: "{{ .Values.hostNetwork }}"

to the podSpec, this then attaches it to the host NIC on the same subnet as everything else on my network so broadcasting works. What I Find odd is I have two servers, a creative and survival one. On the Andoid tablet and phone, it can see both. On my windows 10 PC playing bedrock I can only see the creative server.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jurgenweber]

but you are not wrong about it be3ing sporatic, sometimes now on the tablets, there is one, or two. annoying.

[Taxelas]

I could make server visible from Win11 client by creating network with ipvlan driver, and linking it to physical interface

#docker network inspect Vlan10
{
        "Name": "Vlan10",
        "Id": "df32e8e897c5b21b4da3d2d84",
        "Created": "2024-07-07",
        "Scope": "local",
        "Driver": "ipvlan",
        "EnableIPv6": false,
        "IPAM": {
            "Driver": "default",
            "Options": null,
            "Config": [
                {
                    "Subnet": "192.168.1.0/24",
                    "Gateway": "192.168.1.1"
                }
            ]
        },
        "Internal": false,
        "Attachable": true,
        "Ingress": false,
        "ConfigFrom": {
            "Network": ""
        },
        "ConfigOnly": false,
        "Containers": {
            "144af4ebeff9ded9516f3fe27a": {
                "Name": "minecraft-bds-1",
                "EndpointID": "3b6125194e7643",
                "MacAddress": "",
                "IPv4Address": "192.168.1.35/24",
                "IPv6Address": ""
            }
        },
        "Options": {
            "parent": "ens11"
        },
        "Labels": {}
    }
]

But I have challenge with Nintendo switch I can join win 11 client from Nintendo if users are friends But I can't join bedrock server. I think to be visible to Nintendo it should translate xuid that can be added to freinds

[jurgenweber]

Yeah, I found my solution is very sporadic, it will work and then is disappears over time.. restart the server, it comes back. I don't get it.