Odin Vex

I tried setting ip_unprivileged_port_start to 1 (just for testing), no go. Steam doesn't open 443 and I disabled httpd beforehand so nothing would be bound or listening on 443, but...

> After spending some minutes staring at `lsof` output, I realized Steam was somehow using my work-related loopback hostnames I had defined in `/etc/hosts`. After I removed those, the issue...

> I've further narrowed it down to Steam having problems with loopback hostnames containing hyphens. By appending `/etc/hosts` with: > > ``` > 127.0.0.1 te-st > ``` Valid host names...

A Steam friend of mine that does not experience this bug and is on Arch-based distro like me sent me their hosts file, contains dashes. Dunno why some people would...

For anyone else having this issue that uses external DNS (eg. no system caching because caching can be problematic or for DNS sinkholing to protect your systems/networks) you've probably disabled...

> I'm not running systemd-resolved on any of my systems but my laptop (same OS as my main machine) does not exhibit the slow startup/reaction time of steam. I experimented...

I narrowed down the reason for mine a bit more, to avahi and/or mdns/_minimal combined, having nothing to do with systemd-resolved (that simply got avahi re-enabled which was a false...

> ... Using plagueware like CEF masquerading 'web apps' as software and requiring a loopback host to begin with is the root of this issue, let alone considering some firewalls/DNS...

I see the issue is raised with Lexicon: https://github.com/AnalogJ/lexicon/issues/254

I've got the same problem but with small 1MB files even. Sending from Dino to a non-Dino client is fast, but a Dino client *receiving* anything (from a non-Dino client,...