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-This firewall limits both inbound and outbound traffic to the steam client.
+This firewall allows both inbound and outbound traffic to the steam client, all other traffic is blocked.
+=Static DNS=
 Static DNS keeps the IP addresses used the same as the ones used in the firewall:
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 </dns>
 </syntaxhighlight>
+=Firewall=
 Outbound Rules - Change the MAC address in the source-mac= element to your own:
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 </rule-set>
 </syntaxhighlight>
 =Technical Notes=
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 Steam used to have a huge amount of servers (some from Limelight CDN) located around the world and older versions of the software used an inefficient method to connect users to the servers.
-Steam has made a big improvement on the game delivery system by using 3 different high performing CDN companies, Akamai, Highwinds and Level 3 all at the same time.
+Steam has made a big improvement on the game delivery system by using 3 different high performing CDN companies, Akamai, Highwinds and Level 3.
 *media.steampowered.com = Akamai
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 ==Origin Server==
-The origin server is where the CDN will pull the files from and serve to users. The origin server has a hostname of cdn-01-origin.steampowered.com or cdn-01.steampowered.com, and the hostname will resolve to an IP address of 208.64.200.30.
+The origin server is where each CDN will pull the files from. The origin server has a hostname of cdn-01-origin.steampowered.com or cdn-01.steampowered.com.
-<syntaxhighlight>
-<host name="media.steampowered.com" ip="208.64.200.30"/>
-<host name="media2.steampowered.com" ip="208.64.200.30"/>
-<host name="media3.steampowered.com" ip="208.64.200.30"/>
-<host name="media4.steampowered.com" ip="208.64.200.30"/>
-</syntaxhighlight>
 ==Steam Cloud==