[189728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Mon Jun 6 08:53:44 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Damian Menscher <menscher@gmail.com>, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:53:04 +0200
In-Reply-To: <CAOZq8-g_w1+y+K0eSrVtR+MyHP_JVFCvnpmeZFLMOYL6NEd=hg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 6/Jun/16 00:48, Damian Menscher wrote:
> What *is* standard about them? My earliest training as a sysadmin taught
> me that any time you switch away from a default setting, you're venturing
> into the unknown. Your config is no longer well-tested; you may experience
> strange errors; nobody else will have seen the same bugs.
>
> That's exactly what's happening here -- people are setting up IPv6 tunnel
> broker connections, then complaining that there are unexpected side
> effects.
In that case, let's shutdown the entire Internet and be done with it.
If any network operator here is running their entire network in a
"standard" way as described by Damian, then they are doing something wrong.
Mark.
