The great Netflix vpn debacle!

Sun Sep 19 20:54:19 UTC 2021

In general, my experience with IP Geolocation has been that it’s slightly worse than a bad idea, yet that ship has sailed and like Windows, there are way too many entrenched applications using it for logic to ever prevail.

I believe Amazon runs their own detection service for this and IIRC, they do sell it. I forget the name under which it is marked, but it may well be that they are the common denominator culprit for all 5 you show there.

The good news is if you can get any one of them to fix it, it will likely resolve them all.

Owen

> On Aug 31, 2021, at 13:36 , Bryan Holloway <bryan at shout.net> wrote:
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> Thanks, Owen ... good point.
> 
> Now hearing reports for these same prefixes with Disney+ too.
> 
> So the common denominators are:
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> HBO
> Hulu
> Netflix
> Amazon Prime
> Disney+
> 
> ... there has _got_ to be some new-fangled DB somewhere. This all started in the last month or so.
> 
> All of our RR objects, whois, DNS is solid ... dehr?
> 
> Fun times.
> 
> 
> On 8/31/21 9:16 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
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> [snip]
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>> Geolocate and VPN or Not are often kind of tied to the same kinds of reporting services and it may well be that whatever provider HBO is using for one is also being used for the other.
>> Owen