Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

[Nicholas Suan <nsuan () nonexiste net>]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> > What is non-standard about an HE tunnel? It conforms to the relevant RFCs
> > and
> > is a very common configuration widely deployed to many thousands of
> > locations
> > around the internet.
> >
> > Itÿÿs not that Netflix happens to not work with these tunnels, the problem
> > is
> > that they are taking deliberate active steps to specifically block them.
>
>
> It's not a question of standard vs non-standard.  If Netflix is blocking HE
> IPv6 space (tunnel customers), I suspect they're doing so because this is
> effectively an IPv6 VPN service that masks the end-user's real IP making
> invalid any IP-based GEO assumptions Netflix would like to make about
> customer connections in order to satisfy their content licenses.

Yes, it's just Netflix being super aggressive about blocking VPNs.
They're basically removing access from any sort of service that can be
used to tunnel.