I dunno. I could argue that I could -- to extend that idea -- let literally ANYONE tunnel through my Comcast Business connection to appear to be in the Bay Area. How's that fundamentally different than a service like TunnelBroker apart from economies of scale? More than a few people I know are ready to dump Netflix for this. Fortunately, where I live, Comcast Business has native dual stack... On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Spencer Ryan <sryan@arbor.net> wrote:
There is no way for Netflix to know the difference between you being in NY and using the tunnel, and you living in Hong Kong and using the tunnel.
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix@gmail.com> wrote:
Same, but until there's a real IPv6 presence in the US, it's really annoying that they haven't come up with some fix for this.
I have no plans to turn off IPv6 at home - I actually have many uses for it, and as much as I dislike the controversy around it, think that adoption needs to be prioritized, not penalized.
Additionally, I think that discussing content provider control over regional decisions isn't productive to the conversation, as they didn't build the banhammer (wouldn't you want to control your own content if you had made content specific to regional laws etc?).
I.e. - not all shows need to have regional restrictions between New York (where I live) and California (where my IPv6 /64 says I live).
I'm able to watch House in the any state in the U.S.? Great - ignore my intra-US proxy connection.
My Netflix account randomly tries to connect from Tokyo because I forgot to shut off my work VPN? Fine....let me know and I'll turn *that* off.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:49 PM Spencer Ryan <sryan@arbor.net> wrote:
I don't blame them for blocking a (effectively) anonymous tunnel broker. I'm sure their content providers are forcing their hand. On Jun 3, 2016 3:46 PM, "Cryptographrix" <cryptographrix@gmail.com> wrote:
Netflix needs to figure out a fix for this until ISPs actually provide IPv6 natively.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:13 PM Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com> wrote:
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