Netflix banning HE tunnels

Tue Jun 7 22:35:59 UTC 2016

apparently, all they see is 3 people complaining on this mailing list.. 
well, this makes it 4 with me (and I have a bunch of people in various 
countries complaining on facebook that they have been banned from using 
netflix because they use an HE tunnel.

their answer - TURN IPV6 OFF!!! you're a techie so if you know how to 
setup a tunnel, you must know how to redirect netflix to use IPv4 
only... really?
the answer just pisses me off!

Netflix, YOU are the ones forcing people to turn IPv4 off... this is 
just insane. tens (if not hundred) of thousands of people chose to use 
HE tunnels because their ISP does not offer IPv6..
do you really expect all of them to turn it off? do you really want IPv6 
usage in the world to go down by a few percent because you are unable to 
figure out how to serve content?

I know nobody at Netflix will even answer to the e-mails on this list.. 
but I hope that they will at least acknowledge the problem and figure an 
other way to block content by country.
ie: they could try to talk to HE to register each tunnel in a database 
that points to the country of the user..

cheers,
elvis

On 6/8/16 1:01 AM, chris wrote:
> I am also in the same boat with a whole subnet affected even without a
> tunnel, tried multiple netflix support channels starting in early march and
> the ranges is still blocked 3 months later.
>
> I was a big fan of the service and somewhat of an addict up till this but
> I've really been shocked how this has been (mis)handled
>
> chris
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Davide Davini <diotonante at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Today I discovered Netflix flagged my IPv6 IP block as "proxy/VPN" and I
>> can't use it if I don't disable the HE tunnel, which is the only way for
>> me to have IPv6 at the moment.
>>
>> But the fun part has been Netflix tech support:
>> "Oh I see, yeah we have been receiving reports of some other members
>> with ipv6 having this issues, at the moment Netflix is not really
>> designed to work with ipv6 connections, in this case I can recommend you
>> two things, one is to turn off the ipv6 and the other one will be to
>> contact directly with Hurricane Electric, there are some customers that
>> were able to use Netflix with an ipv6 under some specific settings set
>> by Hurricane Electric."
>>
>> I don't obviously expect HE to fix it, I don't pay for shit, it's a free
>> service, why should they?
>>
>> But it's fun to know that " Netflix is not really designed to work with
>> ipv6 connections ".
>>
>> Who did it say on this ML that the best way to solve these issues is
>> Netflix tech support? :)
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Davide Davini
>>
>>