Setup a Minecraft SRV record in Hetzner DNS

hetzner_minecraft_srv.md

Setup a Minecraft SRV record in Hetzner DNS

With an SRV record you can let your domain point to a Minecraft server without subdomains and without the need for taking the whole @ namespace.

Create a simple A record

First, we'll create a normal A record which the SRV record can point to. Let's choose play.yourdomain.com for this.

Create the SRV record

Select SRV as the record type and enter _minecraft._tcp as its name.

Now click on the value field, which will open the following popup. Choose a priority and weight. Enter the correct port which your Minecraft Server or Proxy is listening on. The default Minecraft port is 25565. For the target, enter the A record including your full domain. Also, don't forget to put a dot at the end of that domain.

Check the zone file entry

Optionally, you can now check the zone file entry to see if everything is correct.

To do this, open the zone file:

The zone file should contain this line:

_minecraft._tcp		IN	SRV	0 5 25565 play.yourdomain.com.

Done

You can now connect to your Minecraft server using just yourdomain.com without the need for an A record taking the @ namespace. 🙂

I don't know what that is. However, the SRV lookup is done by the Minecraft client itself, which means any third party client would explicitly have to implement that feature as well.

It's a pirated web version of Minecraft, lol.