Making a PC findable on your local network

ONE OF THE prerequisites of running a home server of any kind – web, file, Minecraft, VPN, whatever – is that your server can be found. If you’re running an old-style private Minecraft server, for example, the players will need a fixed address that they can point their client at – either an IP address or a URL. Without that ability, running the server is pointless.

Last month we talked about how you can make your network ‘findable’ on the internet using dynamic DNS. That way, even if you IP address changes, your home network will always be accessible. But there’s another thing you have to consider when running a server – the private IP address of the device you’re running the server