Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Sat Jun 4 18:38:10 UTC 2016


If you’re wife is really worried about $100/year, give up your first 2 weeks of Starbucks each year in trade.

Owen

> On Jun 3, 2016, at 18:33 , Matthew Kaufman <matthew at matthew.at> wrote:
> 
> If early adopter PI IPv6 was the same price as early adopter PI v4 space, my wife would be totally on board with this solution.
> 
> Matthew Kaufman
> 
> (Sent from my iPhone)
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2016, at 6:27 PM, Spencer Ryan <sryan at arbor.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Well if you have PI space just use HE's BGP tunnel offerings.
>> 
>> 
>> *Spencer Ryan* | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan at arbor.net
>> *Arbor Networks*
>> +1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m)
>> www.arbornetworks.com
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Raymond Beaudoin <
>> raymond.beaudoin at icarustech.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> As an alternative, there are multiple cloud service offerings that will
>>> advertise your IPv6 allocations on your behalf direct to a server in their
>>> data centers. It seems pretty tongue-in-cheek, and satisfying, to turn
>>> up a *<insert
>>> favorite virtual router instance> *and then route through it. The Internet
>>> is such an amazing place.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Yeah I RAWRed to them pretty hard whilst being as understanding to the CS
>>>> rep that it wasn't their fault.
>>>> 
>>>> They thought I was weird as anything.
>>>> 
>>>> If there are any Verizon FiOS network engineers on the thread, a fellow
>>>> Verizon employee would thank you kindly for an off-thread email regarding
>>>> BGP advertisement (I'll buy the IPv6 block and the drink-of-choice, you
>>>> configure my account to listen for route advertisement).
>>>> 
>>>> Strange that it has to come to this to get "legit" IPv6 service.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:08 PM Raymond Beaudoin <
>>>> raymond.beaudoin at icarustech.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I wasn't originally affected on my he.net tunnel, but this evening it
>>>>> started blocking. The recommended ACLs are a functional temporary
>>>>> workaround, but I've also opened a request with Netflix.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Mark T. Ganzer <ganzer at spawar.navy.mil>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> So far I am not seeing a Netflix block on my he.net tunnel yet. I
>>>>> connect
>>>>>> to the Los Angeles node, so maybe not all of HE's address space is
>>> being
>>>>>> blocked.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Not going to be disabling IPv6 here either. + HAD native IPv6 from
>>> Time
>>>>>> Warner, but they decided to in their wisdom to disable IPv6 service
>>> for
>>>>>> anyone that has an Arris SB6183 due to an Arris firmware bug.  And
>>> they
>>>>> are
>>>>>> taking their sweet time pushing out the fixed firmware update that
>>>>> Comcast
>>>>>> and Cox seemed to be able to push to their customers last fall.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Mark Ganzer
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 6/3/2016 4:49 PM, Cryptographrix wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Depends - how many US users have native IPv6 through their ISPs?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If I remember correctly (I can't find the source at the moment),
>>> HE.net
>>>>>>> represents something like 70% of IPv6 traffic in the US.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And yeah, not doing that - actually in the middle of an IPv6 project
>>> at
>>>>>>> work at the moment that's a bit important to me.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:45 PM Baldur Norddahl <
>>>>> baldur.norddahl at gmail.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Den 4. jun. 2016 01.26 skrev "Cryptographrix" <
>>>>> cryptographrix at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The information I'm getting from Netflix support now is explicitly
>>>>>>>> telling
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> me to turn off IPv6 - someone might want to stop them before they
>>>>>>>>> completely kill US IPv6 adoption.
>>>>>>>> Not allowing he.net tunnels is not killing ipv6. You just need need
>>>>>>>> native
>>>>>>>> ipv6.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On the other hand it would be nice if Netflix would try the other
>>>>>>>> protocol
>>>>>>>> before blocking.
>>> 
> 




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