Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Mansoor Nathani mnathani.lists at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 02:09:35 UTC 2016


Wouldn't the /56 get blocked as soon as Netflix detects multiple accounts
logging in from the same IPv6 range?

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is a good idea. We should do this.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:48 PM Raymond Beaudoin <
> raymond.beaudoin at icarustech.com> wrote:
>
> > Make it a /56 each and you've got a deal. Hell, I'll throw in a round of
> > drinks.
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> We should crowdsource a /40 and split it up into /64's for each of us.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:38 PM 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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