Trouble Playing Multiplayer Games from Reallocated IP Space
Hey NANOG, We have seen an issue where our customers who have IP addresses that are directly allocated to us can play online multiplayer games (NBA2k, NBA2k21, Fallout 76, and Stardew Valley were mentioned specifically) but when they have an IP that was reallocated to us by one of our Upstreams (Server Central), these games no longer work. I know NBA2k is behind Prolexic, but not sure about the others. 2k Games says that we, the ISP, must be blocking something, but there’s absolutely no difference in how data moves from our internet edge to the customer whether they have one of our IPs or one of the reallocated ones. We noticed that one geocoding provider has our reallocated IPs flagged as “hosting” IPs and maybe 2k is using some metadata like that to block our IPs. Does anyone have a contact at Prolexic who might be able to help? Thanks, Tim Nowaczyk -- Timothy Nowaczyk | Senior Network Manager office 703.554.6622 <tel:703.554.6622> | mobile 571.318.9434 <tel:571.318.9434>
check the brothers wisp geoip page On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:40 AM Tim Nowaczyk <tech@allpointsbroadband.com> wrote:
Hey NANOG,
We have seen an issue where our customers who have IP addresses that are directly allocated to us can play online multiplayer games (NBA2k, NBA2k21, Fallout 76, and Stardew Valley were mentioned specifically) but when they have an IP that was reallocated to us by one of our Upstreams (Server Central), these games no longer work. I know NBA2k is behind Prolexic, but not sure about the others. 2k Games says that we, the ISP, must be blocking something, but there’s absolutely no difference in how data moves from our internet edge to the customer whether they have one of our IPs or one of the reallocated ones. We noticed that one geocoding provider has our reallocated IPs flagged as “hosting” IPs and maybe 2k is using some metadata like that to block our IPs.
Does anyone have a contact at Prolexic who might be able to help?
Thanks, Tim Nowaczyk
-- *Timothy Nowaczyk* | *Senior Network Manager* *office* 703.554.6622 | * mobile* 571.318.9434
Tim, I'll get you off-list. - Jared On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:37:44AM -0500, Tim Nowaczyk wrote:
Hey NANOG,
We have seen an issue where our customers who have IP addresses that are directly allocated to us can play online multiplayer games (NBA2k, NBA2k21, Fallout 76, and Stardew Valley were mentioned specifically) but when they have an IP that was reallocated to us by one of our Upstreams (Server Central), these games no longer work. I know NBA2k is behind Prolexic, but not sure about the others. 2k Games says that we, the ISP, must be blocking something, but there’s absolutely no difference in how data moves from our internet edge to the customer whether they have one of our IPs or one of the reallocated ones. We noticed that one geocoding provider has our reallocated IPs flagged as “hosting” IPs and maybe 2k is using some metadata like that to block our IPs.
Does anyone have a contact at Prolexic who might be able to help?
Thanks, Tim Nowaczyk
-- Timothy Nowaczyk | Senior Network Manager office 703.554.6622 <tel:703.554.6622> | mobile 571.318.9434 <tel:571.318.9434>
-- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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