Very true - I was being a bit extremist out of frustration, but I think you're spot on - he.net tunnels and even 6to4 are toys to provide IPv6 support, not actually IPv6 support. And I'm quite frustrated because there's so little actual v6 support, and I *do* actually need it on a daily basis for work. Because there's no actual ISP IPv6 support anywhere else (in parts of the US that *have* multiple ISPs), you can't even make the case to your ISP that it's a legitimate requirement for you because they know you're not really going to get v6 elsewhere. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:22 AM Ca By <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, June 7, 2016, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix@gmail.com> wrote:
As I said to Netflix's tech support - if they advocate for people to turn off IPv6 on their end, maybe Netflix should stop supporting it on their end.
It's in the air whether it's just an HE tunnel issue or an IPv6 issue at the moment, and if their tech support is telling people to turn off IPv6, maybe they should just instead remove their AAAA records.
(or fail back to ipv4 when v6 looks like a tunnel)
I think you need to reset your expectations of a free tunnel service.
he.net tunnels are a toy for geeks looking to play with v6. In terms of Netflix subcriber base, it is amazing insignificant number of users.
At the end of the day, anonymous tunnels, just like linux, are not supported by Netflix. And, he.net tunnel users are hurting ipv6 overall just like 6to4 by injecting FUD and other nonesense complexity.... For a toy.
Move on to a real issue instead of beating this dead horse.
CB
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:22 AM Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> wrote:
On Jun 6, 2016, at 22:25, Spencer Ryan <sryan@arbor.net> wrote:
The tunnelbroker service acts exactly like a VPN. It allows you, from
any
arbitrary location in the world with an IPv4 address, to bring traffic out via one of HE's 4 POP's, while completely masking your actual location.
Perhaps Netflix should automatically block any connection that's not from a known residential ISP or mobile ISP as anything else could be a server someone is proxying through. It's very easy to get these subnets -- the spam filtering folks have these subnets well documented. /s
-- Mark Felder feld@feld.me