[189682] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sat Jun 4 02:48:24 2016
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Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 08:48:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Cryptographrix <cryptographrix@gmail.com>
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Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Cryptographrix wrote:
> I have a VPN connection at my house. There's no way for them to know the
> difference between me using my home network connection from Hong Kong or
> my home network connection from my house.
In my case I have a he.net tunnel from their tunnel servers in Stockholm.
This is properly GEOIP:ed to Sweden (I had to get that done by another
content provider that seems to use the same GEOIP as Netflix, because
after this was done a year ago or something, Netflix stopped thinking I
was in the US when I accessed it over IPv6.)
My regular IPv4 address also GEOIPs to same place.
So the fact I am using IPv6 through a tunnel provider seems to be what
triggers Netflix to block me. The fact that my IPv4 connectivity is NOT
through a tunnel, is something they could check.
I really wish their tunnel connectivity checker was a bit more
sofisticated so it would correlate the following:
My billing address is in Sweden.
My IPv4 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
My IPv6 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
Ok, so fine, I am not trying to circumvent anything so just let me watch
the bloody content ok to show to people in Sweden.
BLOODY HELL!
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
