On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, AgentHH wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > > > You can't this is a major failing of steam IMO and I've mentioned > > it on several occasions but not seen or heard of it being fixed :( > > > > Steve / K > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "ruwen" > > > > > >>How does steam select Content Servers? > > > > > > Just a thought: figure out which content servers you DON'T want > to use and add them to your firewall IP block list, so that > Steam will be forced to talk to one of the ones near you. I > should check this out and see if it actually works... > Figuring out the address should be trivial, get a network > analyzer such as Ethereal and go wild.
I haven't tried it, but I'm not sure how well it will work. I've sniffed the traffic thats flowing when updating steam before, and it seems to contact a master (authentication?) server in the US which then says use this content server. I'm not sure if the master server cares that you can't contact the server. I would hope the client would go, can';t get to that server, give me another.. but it's something worth playing with! john _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
