Just recently I updated my Minecraft servers to 1.19.2. The java servers ran just fine after update, but I noticed I was unable to join the bedrock one.

So I tried going back to the previously working version of the bedrock server and tried connecting using my daugthers PC (which hadn't updated the minecraft client yet), but to no avail.

The client shows "connecting to multiplayer game" for a couple of minutes and then it fails showing "Connection timed out" and "Unable to connect to world". Same issue as with 1.19.2.

I even went so far to reinstall the whole VM with a newer Ubuntu version.

The server was initially a Ubuntu 20.04 VM and was updated to 22.04 (were I also had to download an earlier libssl to even get the bds server going).

The BDS server was running fine earlier this year. No issues connecting either PC client or Android clients over the internet or lan. The ports are forwarded correctly (since as I mentioned, it worked previosuly) and the ports are allowed access in UFW.

VM Host is running Windows Server 2016.

I tried installing the BDS server on a Windows 2016 VM instead and moved my world there (had to change the port forwards to that server ofc.) and that worked like a charm directly. Though that VM was not intended for hosting a game server.

Seems like this issue could be traced down to the Ubuntu version of BDS.