[189717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Jun 5 22:35:10 2016
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Date: 6 Jun 2016 02:34:44 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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>What is non-standard about an HE tunnel? It conforms to the relevant RFCs and
>is a very common configuration widely deployed to many thousands of locations
>around the internet.
Nothing whatsoever, but so what?
>Most likely, these steps are being taken at the behest of their content providers,
>but to the best of my knowledge, that is merely speculation so far as I don’t
>believe Netflix themselves have confirmed this. (It’s not unlikely that they are
>unable to do so due to those same content providers likely insisting on these
>requirements being considered proprietary information subject to NDA.)
Of course they are. Movie licenses are invariably country specific.
R's,
John
