The Steam client currently auto-discovers your "region" based on a graph of content servers we have defined. There are no user configurable parts to this system.
----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AgentHH Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Selecting Content Servers > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > 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 > > I can't say I'm having stellar successes right now. Steam seems to > contact a master server (I've seen Valve Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 14) and > uses that for a content server as well. If I disconnect my Internet > connection, it tries a combination of those three and then says > "Steam cannot connect blah blah blah". > > I think _VALVE_ should do something to help us out here by allowing > to select a specific server, or at least specify our (client) region, > as this seems to be something that's going to be an ugly hack, if it > even works. > > --AgentHH > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
