Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Tue Jun 7 14:46:44 UTC 2016

Very true - I was being a bit extremist out of frustration, but I think
you're spot on - he.net tunnels and even 6to4 are toys to provide IPv6
support, not actually IPv6 support.

And I'm quite frustrated because there's so little actual v6 support, and I
*do* actually need it on a daily basis for work.

Because there's no actual ISP IPv6 support anywhere else (in parts of the
US that *have* multiple ISPs), you can't even make the case to your ISP
that it's a legitimate requirement for you because they know you're not
really going to get v6 elsewhere.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:22 AM Ca By <cb.list6 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tuesday, June 7, 2016, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As I said to Netflix's tech support - if they advocate for people to turn
>> off IPv6 on their end, maybe Netflix should stop supporting it on their
>> end.
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>> It's in the air whether it's just an HE tunnel issue or an IPv6 issue at
>> the moment, and if their tech support is telling people to turn off IPv6,
>> maybe they should just instead remove their AAAA records.
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>> (or fail back to ipv4 when v6 looks like a tunnel)
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> I think you need to reset your expectations of a free tunnel service.
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> he.net tunnels are a toy for geeks looking to play with v6. In terms of
> Netflix subcriber base, it is amazing insignificant number of users.
>
> At the end of the day, anonymous tunnels, just like linux, are not
> supported by Netflix. And, he.net tunnel users are hurting ipv6 overall
> just like 6to4 by injecting FUD and other nonesense complexity.... For a
> toy.
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> Move on to a real issue instead of beating this dead horse.
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> CB
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>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:22 AM Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
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>> > > On Jun 6, 2016, at 22:25, Spencer Ryan <sryan at arbor.net> wrote:
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>> > > The tunnelbroker service acts exactly like a VPN. It allows you, from
>> any
>> > > arbitrary location in the world with an IPv4 address, to bring traffic
>> > out
>> > > via one of HE's 4 POP's, while completely masking your actual
>> location.
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>> >
>> > Perhaps Netflix should automatically block any connection that's not
>> from
>> > a known residential ISP or mobile ISP as anything else could be a server
>> > someone is proxying through. It's very easy to get these subnets -- the
>> > spam filtering folks have these subnets well documented. /s
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>> > --
>> >   Mark Felder
>> >   feld at feld.me
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