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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed


From: Tore Anderson <tore () fud no>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 07:05:25 +0200

* Davide Davini <diotonante () gmail com>

On 04/06/2016 20:46, Owen DeLong wrote:
Get your own /48 and advertise to HE Tunnel via BGP. Problem
solved.  

Even though that sounds like an awesome idea it does not seem trivial
to me to obtain your own /48.

Which is a good thing, as every new PI /48 advertised to the DFZ will
bloat the routing tables of thousands upon thousands of routers world
wide. It might solve the Netflix problem, but what has actually
happened is that you've split the original problem into a thousand
small bits and thrown one piece into each of your neighbours' gardens.

I'd encourage everyone to try to fix their Netflix problem a more proper
way before deciding to litter everyone else's routing tables with
another PI prefix.

Blocking access to Netflix via the tunnel seems like an obvious
solution to me, for what it's worth.

I wonder if anyone has attempted to estimate approx. how much RIB/FIB
space a single DFZ route requires in total across the entire internet...

Tore


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