Minecraft

Introduction

We are to have some Minecraft servers on the Home Lab'. The general setup will be to have a Velocity server in front several Minecraft host Virtual Machines. Velocity works in a similar way to a Nginx reverse proxy whereby Pfsense forwards all Minecraft traffic to the Velocity server including the SNI and Velocity redirects traffic to the required hostname based on the DNS name. Cloudflare does not reverse proxy Minecraft traffic on the free tier and as we do not want to have to deal with random bots from the east so we will not leave the port open on the edge or Pfsense to random bots with port scanners. So we will use grey cloud at Cloudflare but DNS will point to a service like TCPShield and our firewalls only accept Minecraft traffic from their IP addresses and Velocity will only accept named servers and drop any unknown DNS names.