p2p-sea1.discovery.steamserver.net

[Bagline]

So I noticed on my pi-hole today that p2p-****.discovery.steamserver.net was being pinged every minute. Investigating this I discovered that it had been doing so for nearly a month starting Oct 8th at 1:51pm. I got my first achievement in this game a few minutes later, an extremely strong correlation between the two events. I've only run this game for ~30 minutes on the 8th and 3 hours on the 30th.

Why is this single player game connecting to P2P services on steam? Why are these connections continuing after the game is long closed?

[slogbor]

>Why are these connections continuing after the game is long closed?

Probably steam itself. If you're blocking the domain, it is not unusual to see many repeated attempts to connect.

[Bagline]

Yeah. Strangely it's the opposite of that. One blocked attempt stops it altogether. (I'm checking for all *.discovery.steamserver.net domains to make sure)