# Bridge addresses and ports > How a Bridge address is built, why Java players type no port, how Bedrock joins, the game presets, adding your own ports, picking one of our Minecraft domains on Bridge Pro, and pointing your own domain at an address. Source: https://fadehost.com/docs/bridge-names-and-ports/ A free address looks like `name.play.fadehost.net`: the name is a word pair we pick, such as `quiet-fox`, and it stays yours while you use the address. On [Bridge Pro](/docs/bridge-limits-and-pro/) you choose the name, you can put it on [one of our Minecraft domains](#a-fadehost-domain-on-pro) instead of `play.fadehost.net`, and you can point your own domain at it. Below, `name.play.fadehost.net` stands for whichever address the panel shows you; an address on another domain works the same way. ## What each kind of player types | Who | What they type | | --- | --- | | Minecraft Java | `name.play.fadehost.net`, nothing else | | Minecraft Bedrock | `name.play.fadehost.net` as the address, and the port shown on the address in the panel | | Any other game | `name.play.fadehost.net` and the port shown for that port's row | Java needs no port because every address gets an SRV record, `_minecraft._tcp.name.play.fadehost.net` on whichever domain the address sits on, pointing at the relay port behind the name. The Minecraft client reads it and connects to the right port on its own. Older launchers and some server list sites ignore SRV records; the panel shows the address with its port for those. Bedrock has no SRV record in the client, so the port goes in the **Port** box of the Add Server form. Where the relay has a spare address, your Bedrock port is the standard 19132 and the box can stay as it is. A Bedrock player also needs a server that speaks Bedrock on the other end: Geyser on a Java server, or a Bedrock world. ## The ports on an address An address carries a fixed number of ports: two on the free tier, eight on Bridge Pro. A port row has a local side, the port on your own machine, and a public side on the relay, which we hand out. The first two are set up for you: | Row | Local port | Protocol | | --- | --- | --- | | Java | 25565 | TCP | | Bedrock | 19132 | UDP | Change the local port if your server listens somewhere else, or swap a row for another game. The [plugin and the mod](/docs/bridge/) set the local Java port by themselves, so with either of those there is nothing to edit here: - The plugin passes the server's own `server-port`, and reads Geyser's port for the Bedrock row while `bedrock-port` is `auto` in its `config.yml`. Set a number there to fix the Bedrock port by hand, or `off` to leave Bedrock out. - The mod on a client passes the LAN port Minecraft picked, which is a different one every time a world is opened to LAN. Nothing to set, and nothing to re-set next session. - The mod on a Fabric, NeoForge or Forge server passes the port the server is listening on, which it reads from `server.properties` through the server itself. ## Game presets Adding a port asks which game it is for and fills in the rest, so the numbers are never typed from memory: | Game | Local port | Protocol | | --- | --- | --- | | Minecraft Java | 25565 | TCP | | Minecraft Bedrock | 19132 | UDP | | Simple Voice Chat | 24454 | UDP | | Valheim | 2456 and 2457 | UDP | | Terraria | 7777 | TCP | | Palworld | 8211 | UDP | | Factorio | 34197 | UDP | | Mumble | 64738 | TCP and UDP | A game that is not on the list is a plain TCP or UDP row with the port your server uses. UDP matters here: Bedrock, Valheim, Palworld, Factorio and voice chat are all UDP, and the relay carries it the same way it carries TCP. Two ports go further than it sounds. Java and Bedrock on one name is two rows. Java plus Simple Voice Chat is two rows. Valheim on its own is two, because it wants 2456 and 2457. ## Ports we refuse Mail, web and remote desktop ports are not carried: 25, 465 and 587, 80 and 443, 3389, and a handful of others that attract abuse. The panel says so when you try. Bridge is for game servers and the services around them; a bridged machine is not a web host. The [terms](/terms/) have the rest. ## Regions An address lives on one relay, picked when it is created: | Region | Where | | --- | --- | | North America | Montreal and Beauharnois, Canada | | Europe | Roubaix, France | | Asia Pacific | Singapore | Pick the one nearest your own machine, not the one nearest your friends: the long leg of the trip is the one between the relay and you. Players then reach the relay over the network we pay for rather than over your home connection. ## A FadeHost domain, on Pro On Bridge Pro the New address and Rename dialogs offer the same domains a hosted server's subdomain comes from: `shulker.xyz`, `elytra.xyz`, `bungee.network`, `fmc.pw` and `primedtnt.com`. Pick one when you create the address and it starts life as `frost.shulker.xyz`. Pick one for an address you already have and it moves there from `frost.play.fadehost.net`: the records move within a few minutes, and the panel shows the old address until the new one answers. The `play.fadehost.net` address a moved tunnel had keeps answering after the move, pointed at the same relay and the same port, so friends who already have it are not cut off. The panel lists it under the address as "Also reachable at". An address created on one of our domains has no such second name. A name is one address per domain. `frost.shulker.xyz` is free to take while somebody else holds `frost.play.fadehost.net`, and a name a hosted server already answers on is not handed out, in either direction. If the world later moves onto a FadeHost server, the same name on the same domain can go with it, so nobody has to learn a new address. Moving back to `play.fadehost.net` under the old name makes that the address again. ## Your own domain, on Pro On Bridge Pro you can put a name of your own in front of an address, `play.yourdomain.com` for example. Add a CNAME at your DNS provider pointing at your Bridge address, whichever domain it is on, then add the domain to the address in the panel: ```text play CNAME name.play.fadehost.net. ``` Java players then type `play.yourdomain.com` and get the port from the SRV record we publish for the address. For a port other than the default, give players the address with its port, or publish your own SRV record next to the CNAME. Hosted servers use the same flow, written up under [custom domains](/docs/custom-domains/). ## What stays the same The name does not change when your machine reboots, when your home IP changes, or when you reinstall the program. It changes when you rename it or move it to another domain on Pro, and after a move to one of our domains the `play.fadehost.net` address keeps answering as well. A free address is released after 30 days with nobody connecting. See [limits](/docs/bridge-limits-and-pro/#an-idle-free-address-is-released).