Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels

[Michael Still <stillwaxin () gmail com>]

Uhm I think you misunderstood me. What you describe matches what I
described. I never suggested the user can override it with it another
value, I am suggesting that a user may want to keep it to whatever default
value it is as a matter of privacy concerns. Otherwise use the IPv4 tunnel
end point IP.

As for the point about people moving around frequently I would consider
that a pretty far reaching use case and most likely not worth considering
any action for.


On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Matthew Huff <mhuff () ox com> wrote:

> I think you are missing the point. The problem is not that the GeoIP info
> is missing, the problem with the HE.tunnel is that the GeoIP is not set by
> the provider by verifiable means. Letting end-users set their GeoIP
> information is a non-starter for the content provider and they would still
> require a ban.
>
> A solution would be for HE to automatically set the IPv6 geoip based on
> the geoip of the IPv4 source address with no user overrides. Since the
> whole process would be fragile (people change their IPv4 source address
> frequently when travelling, etc...) and the delay it takes to put the GeoIP
> into maxmind's database, etc..., I don't know how well it would work, but
> it would probably be the best bet.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Michael Still
> > Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 10:10 AM
> > To: John Lightfoot <jlightfoot () gmail com>
> > Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org>
> > Subject: Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels
> >
> > I wonder how hard it would be for HE to implement some button on their
> > tunnel portal that when selected will update Maxmind's (or whatever)
> > geolocation for their allocated IPv6 prefixes to match the results
> > returned
> > when querying for their IPv4 tunnel end point address...
> >
> > I would suggest to make it optional since some may not want to have
> > this
> > functionality by default but if you are dying for netflix and are in
> > whatever geolocation netflix deems acceptable this may solve the issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:39 PM, John Lightfoot <jlightfoot () gmail com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > How about:
> > >
> > > Dear Netflix network engineer who’s on the NANOG list.  Could you
> > please
> > > get Netflix to fall back to ipv4 if you block your customer’s ipv6
> > because
> > > it’s in an HE tunnel?  Lots of people who want to watch Netflix, be
> > able to
> > > reach the whole internet, and have Verizon FiOS would really
> > appreciate it.
> > > Thanks,
> > > John
> > >
> > > John Lightoot
> >
> >
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