I'm using a server I bought a while ago to run a Minecraft server for my friends, and while setting it up, I had an issue where whenever I connected, it said "Authentication servers are down. Please try again later, sorry!" The server logs would also show the message: "Couldn't verify username because servers are unavailable." Clearly this wasn't an issue on Mojang's end, because I could connect to other servers, and I could also ping authserver.mojang.com.
For the time being, I have set `online-mode=false`, though I am controlling access using a whitelist. For reasons of both security and features (like skins), I'd like to switch to online mode. Any ideas on how to start troubleshooting? I imagine if there was a way to make the logs more verbose that would help.
OS is Debian 9, Minecraft Server version is 1.16.4, Java version is OpenJDK 11.0.6 from Debian's stretch-backports repository 1.8.0_275 from Debian's repository. At the moment I have no hardware or software firewalls.
The same exact problem occurs on OpenJDK 1.8.0_275. Nonetheless I plan to continue using this version until I have to upgrade to Debian 10 (which doesn't support OpenJDK 8).
I'm using a server I bought a while ago to run a Minecraft server for my friends, and while setting it up, I had an issue where whenever I connected, it said "Authentication servers are down. Please try again later, sorry!" The server logs would also show the message: "Couldn't verify username because servers are unavailable." Clearly this wasn't an issue on Mojang's end, because I could connect to other servers, and I could also ping authserver.mojang.com.
For the time being, I have set `online-mode=false`, though I am controlling access using a whitelist. For reasons of both security and features (like skins), I'd like to switch to online mode. Any ideas on how to start troubleshooting? I imagine if there was a way to make the logs more verbose that would help.
OS is Debian 9, Minecraft Server version is 1.16.4, Java version is OpenJDK
11.0.6 from Debian's stretch-backports repository1.8.0_275 from Debian's repository. At the moment I have no hardware or software firewalls.I've installed OpenJDK 8 (thankfully it's in Debian 9 as well) and will test with it at the first opportunity. Thanks for reminding me of that.
I'm curious, why isn't Java 11 recommended?
The same exact problem occurs on OpenJDK 1.8.0_275. Nonetheless I plan to continue using this version until I have to upgrade to Debian 10 (which doesn't support OpenJDK 8).