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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed


From: Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 07:22:39 -0700

On Tuesday, June 7, 2016, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix () gmail com> wrote:

As I said to Netflix's tech support - if they advocate for people to turn
off IPv6 on their end, maybe Netflix should stop supporting it on their
end.

It's in the air whether it's just an HE tunnel issue or an IPv6 issue at
the moment, and if their tech support is telling people to turn off IPv6,
maybe they should just instead remove their AAAA records.

(or fail back to ipv4 when v6 looks like a tunnel)


I think you need to reset your expectations of a free tunnel service.

he.net tunnels are a toy for geeks looking to play with v6. In terms of
Netflix subcriber base, it is amazing insignificant number of users.

At the end of the day, anonymous tunnels, just like linux, are not
supported by Netflix. And, he.net tunnel users are hurting ipv6 overall
just like 6to4 by injecting FUD and other nonesense complexity.... For a
toy.

Move on to a real issue instead of beating this dead horse.

CB




On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:22 AM Mark Felder <feld () feld me <javascript:;>>
wrote:


On Jun 6, 2016, at 22:25, Spencer Ryan <sryan () arbor net <javascript:;>>
wrote:

The tunnelbroker service acts exactly like a VPN. It allows you, from
any
arbitrary location in the world with an IPv4 address, to bring traffic
out
via one of HE's 4 POP's, while completely masking your actual location.


Perhaps Netflix should automatically block any connection that's not from
a known residential ISP or mobile ISP as anything else could be a server
someone is proxying through. It's very easy to get these subnets -- the
spam filtering folks have these subnets well documented. /s

--
  Mark Felder
  feld () feld me <javascript:;>





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