[189819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Felder)
Tue Jun 7 09:29:13 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
In-Reply-To: <CA+HzidTnQUBsVW1E9Ss5EJdkqRw3_NsDmCs8+A_6PZyMs67k-Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:21:16 -0500
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jun 6, 2016, at 22:25, Spencer Ryan <sryan@arbor.net> wrote:
>=20
> The tunnelbroker service acts exactly like a VPN. It allows you, from =
any
> arbitrary location in the world with an IPv4 address, to bring traffic =
out
> via one of HE's 4 POP's, while completely masking your actual =
location.
>=20
Perhaps Netflix should automatically block any connection that's not =
from a known residential ISP or mobile ISP as anything else could be a =
server someone is proxying through. It's very easy to get these subnets =
-- the spam filtering folks have these subnets well documented. /s
--
Mark Felder
feld@feld.me
