[189688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Jun 4 14:48:32 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1606040843590.28955@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 11:46:56 -0700
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jun 3, 2016, at 23:48 , Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> =
wrote:
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> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Cryptographrix wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.)
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> My regular IPv4 address also GEOIPs to same place.
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> 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.
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> I really wish their tunnel connectivity checker was a bit more =
sofisticated so it would correlate the following:
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> My billing address is in Sweden.
> My IPv4 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
> My IPv6 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
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> 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.
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> BLOODY HELL!
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> --=20
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
Get your own /48 and advertise to HE Tunnel via BGP. Problem solved.
