Took a while and I ended up wiping and reloading all over again, but I am finally back online. I guess steam was having to so some fixing on their end.
Contents of Steam/logs/connection_log_[portnum].txt
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[2014-07-21 20:53:36] Log session started
[2014-07-21 20:53:36] [0,0] SetSteamID( [A:1:0:0] )
[2014-07-21 20:53:36] [1,1] Connect() starting connection (eNetQOSLevelLow, 203.77.185.5:27017, TCP)
[2014-07-21 20:55:43] [1,1] ConnectFailed('No Connection') (203.77.185.5:27017, TCP)
[2014-07-21 20:55:43] [0,0] StartAutoReconnect() will start in 20 seconds
[2014-07-21 20:55:46] [0,0] ScheduleImmediateReconnect()
[2014-07-21 20:55:46] [1,3] Connect() starting connection (eNetQOSLevelMedium, 81.171.115.8:27017, TCP)
[2014-07-21 20:57:53] [1,3] ConnectFailed('No Connection') (81.171.115.8:27017, TCP)
[2014-07-21 20:57:53] [0,0] StartAutoReconnect() will start in 11 seconds
[2014-07-21 20:58:04] [1,6] Connect() starting connection (eNetQOSLevelLow, 72.165.61.176:27017, UDP)
[2014-07-21 20:58:05] [1,6] ConnectionCompleted() (72.165.61.174:27017, UDP)
[2014-07-21 20:58:05] [1,6] RecvMsgClientLogOnResponse() : [A:1:2097258497:4487] 'OK'
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~/Steam/logs$ cat bootstrap_log.txt
looks like the steamcmd_bins_linux.zip.vz.blah file missing message is pointless as its still there.
however this error is now gone...
Code:
[2014-07-20 19:14:24] Checking for available updates...
[COLOR=Yellow][2014-07-20 19:15:24] Download failed: http error 0[/COLOR]
[2014-07-20 19:15:24] Download skipped: /client/steam_cmd_linux version