How do I change the listening IP?

[King's Dedede]

Me and my friends are hosting a server. My friend keeps port forwarding but the listening IP is still 0.0.0.0, the local IP. Any ideas???

[sofar]

0.0.0.0 is always the listening IP, and it has special meaning: it means "listen and accept incoming connections from all origins". If you are properly port forwarding to the server, then everything is OK.

[sofar]

BTW, 0.0.0.0 is not the local IP. Your local IP is probably something like 192.168.1.25. Is your friend hosting the server, or are you? The port forwarding needs to be configured on the router of the person that is hosting the server. The forwarding needs to forward to the local IP address of the machine that the minetest server runs on. You can use `ipconfig /all` in windows cmd.exe to see the IP address if it's a windows machine. On Linux it's `ip a`.