Windows – Minecraft for Windows 10 can’t connect to local server on LAN

Even though this is an old question it remains unanswered and as i encountered the same problem, which took me some while to figure out, i'm sharing my solution here.

If whitelisting your application/ports in the firewall does not work, this might:

If you have several network interfaces, disable all interfaces you do not use/need for accessing the server in question. You can do this as follows:

1. Open the Control Panel
2. Open Network and Sharing Center
3. Click on "Change Adapter Settings"
4. For all adapters you don't need: right click -> deactivate

I did a bit of packet capturing on Wireshark and to the best of what I can tell, it uses an IGMPv2 packet sent to a lesser used multicast address (224.0.2.60), asking for anyone running a Minecraft server to report back. It uses a "Membership report" to do this.

For the nerds, here is the complete packet dump info:

Frame 10: 46 bytes on wire (368 bits), 46 bytes captured (368 bits) on interface 0
    Interface id: 0 (\Device\NPF_{F0A28F43-6094-447F-A150-434AFC4BB19B})
    Encapsulation type: Ethernet (1)
    Arrival Time: Aug 25, 2016 22:25:55.171363000 US Mountain Standard Time
    [Time shift for this packet: 0.000000000 seconds]
    Epoch Time: 1472189155.171363000 seconds
    [Time delta from previous captured frame: 0.235431000 seconds]
    [Time delta from previous displayed frame: 0.235431000 seconds]
    [Time since reference or first frame: 1.234950000 seconds]
    Frame Number: 10
    Frame Length: 46 bytes (368 bits)
    Capture Length: 46 bytes (368 bits)
    [Frame is marked: False]
    [Frame is ignored: False]
    [Protocols in frame: eth:ethertype:ip:igmp:igmp]
    [Coloring Rule Name: Routing]
    [Coloring Rule String: hsrp || eigrp || ospf || bgp || cdp || vrrp || carp || gvrp || igmp || ismp]
Ethernet II, Src: Giga-Byt_91:9c:dc (fc:aa:14:91:9c:dc), Dst: IPv4mcast_02:3c (01:00:5e:00:02:3c)
    Destination: IPv4mcast_02:3c (01:00:5e:00:02:3c)
        Address: IPv4mcast_02:3c (01:00:5e:00:02:3c)
        .... ..0. .... .... .... .... = LG bit: Globally unique address (factory default)
        .... ...1 .... .... .... .... = IG bit: Group address (multicast/broadcast)
    Source: Giga-Byt_91:9c:dc (fc:aa:14:91:9c:dc)
        Address: Giga-Byt_91:9c:dc (fc:aa:14:91:9c:dc)
        .... ..0. .... .... .... .... = LG bit: Globally unique address (factory default)
        .... ...0 .... .... .... .... = IG bit: Individual address (unicast)
    Type: IPv4 (0x0800)
Internet Protocol Version 4, Src: 192.168.1.46, Dst: 224.0.2.60
    0100 .... = Version: 4
    .... 0110 = Header Length: 24 bytes
    Differentiated Services Field: 0x00 (DSCP: CS0, ECN: Not-ECT)
    Total Length: 32
    Identification: 0x4347 (17223)
    Flags: 0x00
        0... .... = Reserved bit: Not set
        .0.. .... = Don't fragment: Not set
        ..0. .... = More fragments: Not set
    Fragment offset: 0
    Time to live: 1
    Protocol: IGMP (2)
    Header checksum: 0x0000 [validation disabled]
        [Good: False]
        [Bad: False]
    Source: 192.168.1.46
    Destination: 224.0.2.60
    [Source GeoIP: Unknown]
    [Destination GeoIP: Unknown]
    Options: (4 bytes), Router Alert
        Router Alert (4 bytes): Router shall examine packet (0)
            Type: 148
                1... .... = Copy on fragmentation: Yes
                .00. .... = Class: Control (0)
                ...1 0100 = Number: Router Alert (20)
            Length: 4
            Router Alert: Router shall examine packet (0)
Internet Group Management Protocol
    [IGMP Version: 2]
    Type: Membership Report (0x16)
    Max Resp Time: 0.0 sec (0x00)
    Header checksum: 0x07c3 [correct]
    Multicast Address: 224.0.2.60

Here is the raw packet dump:

0000   01 00 5e 00 02 3c fc aa 14 91 9c dc 08 00 46 00  ..^..<........F.
0010   00 20 43 47 00 00 01 02 00 00 c0 a8 01 2e e0 00  . CG............
0020   02 3c 94 04 00 00 16 00 07 c3 e0 00 02 3c        .<...........<

So to answer your problem, you might have multicasts turned off on your router, or IGMP is disabled. I'm not completely familiar with the flags, but it looks like it there might be something in the Options/Router Alert field... Probably telling the router to not forward the multicast outside of the subnet, but that's just a guess.