Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Mon Jun 6 15:31:23 UTC 2016

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
>> What is non-standard about an HE tunnel? It conforms to the relevant RFCs
>> and
>> is a very common configuration widely deployed to many thousands of
>> locations
>> around the internet.
>>
>> Itÿÿs not that Netflix happens to not work with these tunnels, the problem
>> is
>> that they are taking deliberate active steps to specifically block them.
>
>
> It's not a question of standard vs non-standard.  If Netflix is blocking HE
> IPv6 space (tunnel customers), I suspect they're doing so because this is
> effectively an IPv6 VPN service that masks the end-user's real IP making
> invalid any IP-based GEO assumptions Netflix would like to make about
> customer connections in order to satisfy their content licenses.
>

Yes, it's just Netflix being super aggressive about blocking VPNs.
They're basically removing access from any sort of service that can be
used to tunnel.