Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Jun 3, 2016, at 23:48 , Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Cryptographrix wrote:
>
> > I have a VPN connection at my house. There's no way for them to know the difference between me using my home network 
> > connection from Hong Kong or my home network connection from my house.
>
> In my case I have a he.net tunnel from their tunnel servers in Stockholm. This is properly GEOIP:ed to Sweden (I had 
> to get that done by another content provider that seems to use the same GEOIP as Netflix, because after this was done 
> a year ago or something, Netflix stopped thinking I was in the US when I accessed it over IPv6.)
>
> My regular IPv4 address also GEOIPs to same place.
>
> So the fact I am using IPv6 through a tunnel provider seems to be what triggers Netflix to block me. The fact that my 
> IPv4 connectivity is NOT through a tunnel, is something they could check.
>
> I really wish their tunnel connectivity checker was a bit more sofisticated so it would correlate the following:
>
> My billing address is in Sweden.
> My IPv4 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
> My IPv6 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
>
> Ok, so fine, I am not trying to circumvent anything so just let me watch the bloody content ok to show to people in 
> Sweden.
>
> BLOODY HELL!
>
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


Get your own /48 and advertise to HE Tunnel via BGP. Problem solved.