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Hello! I am trying to host dedicated game servers and would love to not have my actual IP exposed, I've read some guides and other topics with similar issues from what I am experiencing and neither of them seem to be the case for me. I currently have AirVPN on my Router (OpenWrt), I have port forwarded the ports on my router (using the external zone that is the tunnel instead of WAN- because I read that from "How to forward ports in DD-WRT & Tomato with iptables") Which assumes that I can't use the GUI to change the external zone from other than WAN. Yes- I have the port in the External + Internal port, its not shown in the screenshot but it is there. -- My firewall is allowing applications and services that I use to host the game server (in this case java/javaw) and I am using the IP the server detects (Its the public server IP [198.XXX.XXX.XXX] rather than client virtual IP [10.XXX.XXX.XXX]). I tried using the client virtual IP, but the software I use to host my minecraft server (MCSS) throws an error saying it wasn't able to bind to that port and suggests another server is using that port which is not the case on my end at least. When checking the ports to see if they are open, TCP gets a connection timed out (110). UDP is fine. I checked other forums/topics on this issue and I read through and tested their (potential) solutions and I have yet to get one that works for me. I am fully able to connect to other games and services just fine (as well as other minecraft servers), but when I try to host it, nothing seems to prevail. I believe this is as much info I can give on this- if there is anything I can do on my end to help troubleshoot this, please feel free to inform me and I'll try my best. Much appreciated in advance <3