Oh... that might actually help, even if it doesn't work at all times.

I'm a bit confused, though. Was "123 150 229" supposed to what? Doesn't
look like a valid IP number.

Many thanks!

On 1 April 2012 02:25, ics <[email protected]> wrote:

>  You mean creating the Steam.cfg and putting line
> PreferredContentServerIDs = "123 150 229" into it method? Its only
> preference, might not always work.
>
> -ics
>
> 1.4.2012 5:16, Cc2iscooL kirjoitti:
>
> That's an incredibly restrictive firewall for a datacenter... from my
> experience most datacenters are able to isolate specific patterns or types
> of data and be very specific about their blocks rather than just doing a
> blanket blocking.
>
> Secondly, I seem to remember a way of manually setting what server the
> update actually pulled from was posted on this mailing list. Unfortunately,
> I also do not remember and can't seem to find it. Does anyone remember
> where it was that you could edit a file to manually put in what server you
> wanted to pull from?
>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:12 PM, pilger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> @kirby "Get a new datacenter. " Geez, man. Thanks. That was the kind of
>> answer I was looking for. ¬¬
>>
>> @Mart: Did a quick search and didn't find anything about it. Do you
>> remember any detail that might help searching for it through the list?
>>
>> @Jevgenjj: If only it had a list of IPs... but most of them are just
>> #numbers which reverse to nothing concrete. So no luck there. Thanks for
>> sharing, though.
>>
>>
>>  On 31 March 2012 22:03, Jevgenij Timosenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure, but whitelisting all their content servers might help:
>>> http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:43 AM, hlds <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Get a new datacenter.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 3/31/2012 4:40 PM, Mart-Jan Reeuwijk wrote:
>>> >
>>> > its a lonely place on the windows list, lol
>>> >
>>> > but no, afaik is valve rotating IP's too much to keep a "fixed" allow
>>> list
>>> > or w/e.
>>> >
>>> > if I remember correctly on the linux list there was some time (3-9
>>> months)
>>> > ago mentioned some script that needed regular running to update that
>>> IP list
>>> > or w/e.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ________________________________
>>> > From: pilger <[email protected]>
>>> > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
>>> > <[email protected]>
>>> > Sent: Saturday, 31 March 2012, 22:25
>>> > Subject: Re: [hlds] Workaround to a update being blocked
>>> >
>>> > Anybody!?
>>> >
>>> > On 30 March 2012 00:50, pilger <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hey guys,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > My datacenter was being targeted by some aggressive assaults lately and
>>> > decided to implemment a rather restrictive firewall that requires our
>>> > operator to manually whitelist the valve servers everytime there's an
>>> > update.
>>> >
>>> > Is there a list of the update servers addresses avaliable somewhere!?
>>> So we
>>> > can add them all at once?
>>> >
>>> > Cause the system went back to manual updates for the past few weeks
>>> and that
>>> > makes the proccess very laborious and slow.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance!
>>> >
>>> > _pilger
>>> >
>>> >
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