Ok. Thanks for the clarification!
--AgentHH
Alfred Reynolds wrote:
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
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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
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