Netflix banning HE tunnels

Laszlo Hanyecz laszlo at heliacal.net
Wed Jun 8 19:34:25 UTC 2016



On 2016-06-08 18:57, Javier J wrote:
> Tony, I agree 100% with you. Unfortunately I need ipv6 on my media subnet
> because it's part of my lab. And now that my teenage daughter is
> complaining about Netflix not working g on her Chromebook I'm starting to
> think consumers should just start complaining to Netflix. Why should I have
> to change my damn network to fix Netflix?
>
> In her eyes it's "daddy fix Netflix" but the heck with that. The man hours
> of the consumers who are affected to work around this issue is less than
> the man hours it would take for Netflix to redirect you with a 301 to an
> ipv4 only endpont.
>
> If Netflix needs help with this point me in the right direction. I'll be
> happy to fix it for them and send them a bill.
>

They're doing the same thing with IPv4 (banning people based on the 
apparent IP address).  Your IPv4 numbers may not be on their blacklist 
at the moment, and disabling IPv6 might work for you, but the underlying 
problem is the practice of GeoIP/VPN blocking, and the HE.net tunnels 
are just one example of the collateral damage.

I don't know why Netflix and other GeoIP users can't just ask customers 
where they are located, instead of telling them.  It is possible that 
some user might lie, but what about "assume good faith"?  It shows how 
much they value you as a customer if they would rather dump you than 
trust you to tell them where you are located.

-Laszlo





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