Re: Hulu / ESPN: Commercial IP Address

[Colin Johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk>]

nhs public wifi seems weird for hulu and wifi calling,  uses sophos i see so wondered if right rules enabled...

col

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> On 15 Oct 2018, at 09:10, Christian de Larrinaga <cdel () firsthand net> wrote:
>
> Brandon, That is odd. Might this be an artefact of cellular carriers being fixated on revenue protection of their 
> inter carrier rates. Are they (wrongly) assuming a public IP might be a grey market termination risk onto their 
> networks?
>
> best 
>
> Christian
>
> Brandon Butterworth wrote:
> > > On Sat Oct 13, 2018 at 02:39:37PM -0400, Daniel Corbe wrote:
> > >
> > > I had a customer with a similar issue.   I statically assigned them a  
> > > different IP and it didn???t resolve it.   The problem turned out to be 
> > > tied  to their Hulu account.
> >
> >
> > I had a similar issue with wifi calling on O2 in the UK. it
> > worked on some wifi but not others. After pressing O2 support
> > for quite some time they admitted "you're on commercial IP space
> > which we don't support" but would say no more.
> >
> > After a little puzzling I realised the working wifis were
> > NATed to 1918 so I added NAT to one that wasn't working and the
> > phone registered OK for wifi calling. The address it was NATed
> > to was the same range so it appears their test is for 1918 space
> > on the client.
> >
> > I'm not saying HULU is the same, I've never has access to it,
> > but companies cook up some wierd ideas of what is accepable for
> > client access. I've still got no idea why having a public IP makes
> > it unnaceptable to make phone calls where their coverage is poor.
> >
> > brandon