Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Spencer Ryan sryan at arbor.net
Fri Jun 3 19:49:06 UTC 2016


I don't blame them for blocking a (effectively) anonymous tunnel broker.
I'm sure their content providers are forcing their hand.
On Jun 3, 2016 3:46 PM, "Cryptographrix" <cryptographrix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Netflix needs to figure out a fix for this until ISPs actually provide IPv6
> natively.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:13 PM Blair Trosper <blair.trosper at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Confirmed that Hurricane Electric's TunnelBroker is now blocked by
> > Netflix.  Anyone nice people from Netflix perhaps want to take a crack at
> > this?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:15 PM, <mike.hyde1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Had the same problem at my house, but it was caused by the IPv6
> > connection
> > > to HE.  Turned of V6 and the device worked.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Sent with Airmail
> > >
> > > On June 1, 2016 at 10:29:03 PM, Matthew Kaufman (matthew at matthew.at)
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Every device in my house is blocked from Netflix this evening due to
> > > their new "VPN blocker". My house is on my own IP space, and the
> outside
> > > of the NAT that the family devices are on is 198.202.199.254, announced
> > > by AS 11994. A simple ping from Netflix HQ in Los Gatos to my house
> > > should show that I'm no farther away than Santa Cruz, CA as microwaves
> > > fly.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, when one calls Netflix support to talk about this, the
> > > only response is to say "call your ISP and have them turn off the VPN
> > > software they've added to your account". And they absolutely refuse to
> > > escalate. Even if you tell them that you are essentially your own ISP.
> > >
> > > So... where's the Netflix network engineer on the list who all of us
> can
> > > send these issues to directly?
> > >
> > > Matthew Kaufman
> > >
> >
>



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