This is an AMP installation running on a server hosted by Hostinger. I have talked to them and they say everything is in order and to talk to you guys. I am getting an error when trying to join my Minecraft server that says “Authentication servers are down, please try again later, sorry!” This occurs with 2 Minecraft user accounts that I have and only when trying to join my server. I can successfully join other mainstream servers with no issues so I believe my account is in order.
Any help is much appreciated.
Steps to reproduce:
Attempt to join the server
Actions taken to resolve so far:
Can ping google.com from server, SSH into server, View server with full connectivity from multiplayer page. For all intensive purposes everything seems to be regularly operational I just cant join.
Had to go through a long and drawn out process to update the AMP instances installed because of outdated authentication keys. Everything is updated but no connection.
Have tried a few other solutions I have found online but am hesitant to just try random solutions without any clear troubleshooting.
If you’re able to join fine, it could be a regional outage where the other users are located.
Microsoft has stopped reporting their authentication outages, so it’s hard to confirm for sure.
The client has it’s own public key, that it then passes off to the server for it to double check against the auth servers. If either the client or server can’t reach out to the auth servers to renew/validate the key, then the user will be unable to connect.
I am unable to connect to the server. You are saying the problem is with my actual Minecraft client and not with the server? Its actually interesting you suggest that because I have switched router manufacturers since the last time I logged into the server. Perhaps something is going on there.
I would be curious as to why I can join other servers such as hypixal, but not mine. I would think if my client was having an issue it would lock me out of everything.
Thanks for the help, I will investigate and report back.
Ah, I misread your message, the issue is probably server-side.
Though it’s always good to sanity check and restart your client and computer.
If all that still checks out, it may be a DNS issue on the VPS, restarting the whole VPS may fix it, or the Minecraft server’s log might have more details.
I discovered that my use of Adoptium JDK was what was causing the problem. Minecraft wants to see Oracle and Oracle only I guess. I discovered this information in a reddit post from 7 years ago. I installed Oracle JDK 21 and it now works flawlessly.
Never heard of that happening, good to know for future reference!
Lots of people use the Temurin JDK with AMP, or run their MC servers with Docker enabled (which also uses Temurin)