Minecraft SSH Port Tunnel

README.md

MC Port Tunnel SSH Service

Usecase -> not able to port forward in your network.

Assumptions: 12345 is the mc server's port that its opening on the remote server (25565). User mc is the user on the minecraft server. User minecraft is the user on the cloud SSH server.

If you have fail2ban installed, make sure to add the following to /etc/fail2ban/jail.local:

[DEFAULT]
ignoreip = (public ip address of the private network its running on; the one you're tunneling out of)

mc_tunnel.service

[Unit]
Description=SSH Port tunnel for minecraft
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=mc
Group=mc
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -n -N -R 12345:10.3.0.95:25565 minecraft@mc.domain.com
Restart=always
RestartSec=20
KillMode=mixed

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sshd_config

Match User minecraft
	AllowTcpForwarding yes
	GatewayPorts yes