[AusNOG] Australian Steam Content Mirrors

[Brett Wagstaff]

Not impossible at all, actually quite easy if you know what you're doing.
I've got a cache server sitting right here with 130+ games/tools cached
locally on it, and same server + others were used at PAX AU this year :) -
That been said, you're far better off contacting valve directly and
speaking to them.

Brett.


On 17 September 2013 21:03, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Daniel,
>
> Around June / July this year valve migrated off of their old distribution
> system based around proprietary 'steam cache' servers to what they call
> "SteamPipe" which is a HTTP based CDN. When I last checked in early august
> only 10% or less traffic continued over the old steamcache system.
>
> Steampipe itself is broken into 2 subsystems - Valves in house HTTP CDN
> and third party CDN's. The traffic split between these two systems is
> approximately 67% to 33% when i last looked. Valves in house system are all
> servers that fall below the subdomain of *.cs.steampowered.com and
> australia currently hosts 3 of these servers -
> Valve217.cs.steampowered.com, Valve5.cs.steampowered.com and
> Valve6.cs.steampowered.com. The third party system is currently a mix of
> 6 vendors at last check using the naming system content*.steampowered.com.
> Each of these content 'servers' is mapped to a different global CDN and
> each one serves a different set of content - IIRC content1 servers
> authentication and store traffic, and content 3 and content7 serve game
> files. Content7 is the namespace for Akamai, Content1 is Limelight, 2 is
> Footprint, 3 is HighWinds, 4 is EdgeCast, and 5 is Amazon. 6 is now
> decommissioned and no longer in rotation.
>
> In short, it is basically impossible for any consumer ISP to cache all of
> steam, the best they can do is host a bunch of the third party CDN's such
> as akamai and hope to get lucky and serve maybe 40% of steams traffic
> (although in my experience ISP's dont count akamai as freezone / unmetered)
>
> --Damian
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Watson <daniel at glovine.com.au>wrote:
>
>>  Hi Guys
>>
>>  I was wondering if anybody on-list may know of any other Steam content
>> providers other then the obvious IINET, Internode or Telstra based services
>> run by those types of ISP's? and if they know the URL's?
>>
>>  Daniel
>>
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