[189727] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Mon Jun 6 08:50:57 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: mlfreita@mtu.edu, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:49:36 +0200
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 6/Jun/16 00:18, Matt Freitag wrote:
> While it is damaging negative publicity it also makes sense. HE's tunnel
> service amounts to a free VPN that happens to provide IPv6. I would love
> for someone from HE to jump in and explain better how their tunnel works,
> why it's been blocked by Netflix, and what (if anything) they are doing to
> mitigate it.
>
> For my part, I also found that my HE tunnel no longer worked with Netflix
> because, again, it amounts to a free VPN service. I had to shut it off.
You use the word "free" like as though Netflix would not block a "paid
for" VPN service.
I don't think the commercial state of the VPN service matters.
Mark.
