Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Sat Jun 4 01:24:47 UTC 2016

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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