I would imagine it was done on purpose. The purpose of the Netflix VPN detection was to block users from outside of different regions due to content providers requests. Since HE provides free ipv6 tunnels, it's an easy way to get around the blockage, hence the restriction. ---- Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-694-5669
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Blair Trosper Sent: Friday, June 3, 2016 3:11 PM To: mike.hyde1@gmail.com Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
Confirmed that Hurricane Electric's TunnelBroker is now blocked by Netflix. Anyone nice people from Netflix perhaps want to take a crack at this?
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:15 PM, <mike.hyde1@gmail.com> wrote:
Had the same problem at my house, but it was caused by the IPv6 connection to HE. Turned of V6 and the device worked.
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On June 1, 2016 at 10:29:03 PM, Matthew Kaufman (matthew@matthew.at) wrote:
Every device in my house is blocked from Netflix this evening due to their new "VPN blocker". My house is on my own IP space, and the outside of the NAT that the family devices are on is 198.202.199.254, announced by AS 11994. A simple ping from Netflix HQ in Los Gatos to my house should show that I'm no farther away than Santa Cruz, CA as microwaves fly.
Unfortunately, when one calls Netflix support to talk about this, the only response is to say "call your ISP and have them turn off the VPN software they've added to your account". And they absolutely refuse to escalate. Even if you tell them that you are essentially your own ISP.
So... where's the Netflix network engineer on the list who all of us can send these issues to directly?
Matthew Kaufman