Netflix banning HE tunnels

Elvis Daniel Velea elvis at velea.eu
Wed Jun 8 15:54:31 UTC 2016


So, how do you identify where an IP address is used?

/elvis

Excuse the briefness of this mail, it was sent from a mobile device.

> On Jun 8, 2016, at 18:41, Spencer Ryan <sryan at arbor.net> wrote:
>
> It identifys where you told it you are. It doesn't tell Netflix that your
> v4 endpoint is in New Zeland and you are watching a bunch of content you
> are not supposed to have access to.
>
> Is this really that hard to understand?
>
>
> *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 Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:33 AM, John Peach <john-nanog at peachfamily.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Mine, whilst not identifying me personally, has detail down to the
>> correct town and zipcode.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:30:31 -0500
>> Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Once upon a time, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> said:
>>>> Contrary to your repeated assertions, HE tunnels are NOT anonymous.
>>>>
>>>> HE operates a perfectly fine RWHOIS server that provides sufficient
>>>> information about each tunnel that it cannot be considered
>>>> anonymous.
>>>
>>> Unless that information is verified, it is effectively anonymous.  I
>>> had an HE tunnel years ago, and the only verified information was my
>>> email address.
>>



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