Help setting up multiplayer server

[BottleGnomes]

I see a few of these threads around and apologize for throwing another one up here, but I am unsure where else to turn to.
My first post isn't allowed to have URLs, so the images are coming in the next post!

[BottleGnomes]

I set up my port forwarding by assigning it to my static ip:


however I still get this error on http://www.canyouseeme.org/


I added exceptions to my firewall and even tried turning it off entirely. Not sure what else to try at this point. Any help would be appreciated!
EDIT: for some reason now I'm getting this error:
Error: I could not see your service on [IP address] on port (34197)
Reason: Connection refused

[prg]

The open/closed port distinction only applies to TCP (is something replying with the proper handshake to a connection request on a certain port?), but Factorio uses UDP which is stateless (no connections are established, packets are fire and forget) and thus can't be checked this way. You'd need to actually try running the game to see if it works and maybe have a look at a packet sniffer to see if something's getting through.

[BottleGnomes]

I see - I'm trying to set it up for a friend of mine; do both parties need to have our ports forwarded or only the person who creates the world? Since it's p2p it isn't really a host? Networking is such a mess! The error my friend is getting is "Couldn't establish network connection with server"
EDIT: It seems I have inadvertently set my computer's preferred internal ip to 10.0.0.253
Let me try to fix that and see if it resolves the error.