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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed


From: Steven Noble <snoble () sonn com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:35:23 -0700

It's obviously a nontrivial number otherwise why would Netflix block it? :)

Aled Morris wrote:

Maybe HE's IPv6 tunnel packets could be flagged with a destination option
(extension header field) that records the end-user's IPv4 tunnel endpoint
so geolocation could be done in the "old fashioned" way on that address.

Similar to the way that edns-client-subnet records the end user's address
for geolocation purposes.

I have to say though, how many Netflix customers are using HE IPv6 tunnels,
really? zero percent (to two decimal places)?

Aled


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