Hello Everyone i recently set up my Start9 server successfully a couple of weeks ago and have been having trouble connnecting to Port 8333 so that i can recieve inbound connections to other nodes worldwide which ive attempted to check on binodes as well as using a couple port checking websites that i found. A little backround information:
My internet service provider is Optimum for anyone familiar with them and I orginally attempted to use port forwarding through my Optimum router which was unsuccessful. After doing some extensive research I found out that Optimum do not provide public IP addresses and that instead my IP is dynamic which won’t work with port forwarding. My next move was to purchase a new router so I purchased a TP-link router which has been working great so far, I discovered that through my TP link round I could use IPV6 and I enabled it on my router, I also set up a firewall rule Using the IPV6 address for my start9 and also added 8333 into the port field. After completing the process I tried to check my connection again through Bitnodes and its still failing to get a connection. I checked to make sure the IPV6 connection works through a URL and I even see the IPV6 address to my start9 in the IP address field on the Bitnodes website. I’m also using a Windows computer with my Start9.
Ive been going crazy because I really want to make sure that my node is running correctly as part of the network. I want to try to avoid making this more complicated with things like VPNs and the sort, I not very computer savy so a lot of lingo and methods of doing certain things im not very familiar with yet.
Is there something else im missing with what ive done so far? Please, help.