Does anyone know why my moonraker instance would be able to connect to an mqtt broker running locally but not one running remotely?

[Shane14705]

I'm 99 percent sure that my raspberry pi is properly connected to the internet given the fact that I can ssh into it and ping google, and moonraker itself is working correctly since I can control my printer through mainsail... however for some reason using a newly created hiveMQ broker does not seem to work. Could there be something I'm missing in my moonraker.conf to allow it to connect to remote servers? I know that you have to authorize inbound connections as "trusted" but do I have to do the same for my new remote mqtt server? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!