For the past 6 months I've been struggling trying to connect to any Aternos server. None of them work for me, while other servers work perfectly fine!
I've looked through a bunch of forums with people who have similar problems and I've tried to troubleshoot that way; but with no luck.
I've tracerouted the connection and there isn't more than 4 jumps.
It's not my internet connection, because I can get on other servers.
I've looked at the ports blocked by my router and it's not blocking any MC ones.
I've turned off my firewall, and aha!! It works!! But I can't keep my firewall off all the time; and I've tried to go in manually and fix it? I've allowed connections in Java as well as the MC Launcher, but it still won't let me on any Aternos servers!!
I've put specific rules on those apps and I still can't get in.
I beg, is there any other way to solve this issue? I'm 90% sure it's the firewall but nothing I'm doing is working.
I'm not the most informed on any of this and I'm learning by the second, so I'm sorry if any of this sounds stupid :'0
It's the stupid "io.netty.channel.abstractchannel@annotatedconnectexception connection refused no further information" error message.