In a message written on Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:40:01PM -0800, Paul Ferguson wrote:
Considering the fact that I received an e-mail survey request today from Netflix (I am a subscriber) which, among other questions, asked if I ever did streaming of their services on the Internet, Wii, Live TV, etc. (I don't), as well as asked if I am a Comcast subscriber (I am), among other last-mile service provider options -- I just found the timing of all of this very "interesting".
Unfortunately Netflix's state of mind if you will is something we can't derive from the routing tables. They might have gone into this hand in hand with Level 3, wanting to make a point to Comcast/The FCC/The Public about something. On the other hand, Level 3 might have told them things were just peachy with Comcast and they could easily handle this traffic and Netflix got sold a pig in a poke. If so, they could be rather unhappy that their new CDN partner is dragging them into this mess before they even turn up. But I have to wonder, why ask if you are on Comcast? It's not hard to identify all of Comcast's IP space from the routing table, and they know the endpoint of every stream they serve. They have perfect data from their servers, why use error prone data from a survey? -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/