Once a month or so it "pings" a number of content servers and chooses
the one with the lowest latency to determine the region ("cell") you are
in.- Alfred ----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Britt Priddy (PZGN) Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Selecting Content Servers > Is the only way to obtain a different content server to delete the > ClientRegistry.blob and its possible be assigned a new content > server? How does it know our region? By IP or the servers we > connect to? > > > _____________________________ > Britt Priddy > Network Engineer > Power Zones Gaming Network > www.powerzones.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alfred Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:53 PM > Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Selecting Content Servers > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
