"Connection time out" when trying to connect to LAN server

[ehanpaul8]

Hey, I'm using Minetest 5.2.0, and I want to connect to a LAN server. However, it always says connecting and then it says connection timed out. I can connect to a public server, though and not a private one. Help?

[freshreplicant]

I'd say there's many potential reasons for this issue, so I can't say it's the same thing I was experiencing on 5.3.

For me, I was able to connected to LAN games in the past and it stopped working for the past few days, so that might be different for you. After much experimenting yesterday, restarting the network a few times, it seemed to work again. I'm not entirely sure what fixed it in the end, or what the issue was, but sometimes the ol' 'have you turned it on an off again' might help.

Three questions:

1. Have you tried pinging the client or vice versa?
2. Have you tried making the host the client and seeing if it's a one way issue?
3. What operating system are you on?