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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:08:58 -0400
On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:44:14 -0400, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
And if Netflix can't be bothered to consult rwhois for the ownership (which could be used for other use cases as well), they certainly aren't going to do *new* code as a one-off.
Said by someone who's never written (r)whois parsers. There's no standard, you don't know who's running one, and God knows what it's going to spit out. It's hard enough to simply know who to ask. (see also: jwhois) Parsing whatever junk gets sent back almost requires an AI.
Yes, ARIN and RIPE have REST APIs, but they're completely different interfaces with different schemas (and different capabilities.) I have independent applications for talking to each. And those are the only two I'm going to bother with.
HE doesn't do a GeoIP lookup for the location of your v4 address and update their rwhois information every time your tunnel endpoint changes. Even if they did, Netflix would have to query that for every connection attempt to make sure you haven't moved it. That's never going to happen.
--Ricky
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- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Mark Felder (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Aled Morris (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Steven Noble (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Christopher Morrow (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Eric Kuhnke (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Mark Andrews (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Laszlo Hanyecz (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Eric Kuhnke (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Lyndon Nerenberg (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Ricky Beam (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Nikolay Shopik (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Ricky Beam (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Tore Anderson (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Laszlo Hanyecz (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Owen DeLong (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Harald Koch (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Lyndon Nerenberg (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Josh Reynolds (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed bzs (Jun 07)
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