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What can you do if your friend can get into a Minecraft server but you can't because it tells you it's down for maintenance?

Is there anything I can do to access the server?

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    Interesting information: How do you connect? With IP address or host name? What have you tried already? Restarting Minecraft? Restarting your PC? Waiting ~ 5 -10 Minutes? How is the server hosted?
    – kutschkem
    Commented Jun 9, 2020 at 7:55
  • Technical support for Minecraft is off-topic here.
    – OrangeDog
    Commented Jun 9, 2020 at 9:42
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    @OrangeDog It's not: technical support for modded Minecraft is off-topic here.
    – Joachim
    Commented Jun 9, 2020 at 10:34
  • Does this answer your question? Is there a list of error codes for Minecraft?
    – Timmy Jim ♦
    Commented Jun 9, 2020 at 17:13

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1) Since your friend can connect the server is up

2) You connect to some different server that says it is under maintenance

Make sure you both connect to the same server (IP-Address!). I assume that you connect by host name, and further assume that the server was under maintenance a few minutes or hours ago, when you tried to connect.

DNS requests are cached, so it's possible that the hostname you try to connect to is leading you to the wrong IP (the one that is used while a server is under maintenance). Try refreshing the DNS cache (https://superuser.com/a/80758/138216)

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