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Re: Netflix in Australia and IPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Chernyakhovsky)
Thu Dec 10 20:19:53 2015

In-Reply-To: <20151211002221.GE17835@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:19:51 -0500
From: Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu>
To: Olivia Brode-Roger <nibr@mit.edu>
Cc: sipbv6@mit.edu, Kevin W Chen <kchen@mit.edu>

Netflix, IMO, is totally wrong, and should check WHOIS

NetRange:       2001:4830:2446:: - 2001:4830:2446:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF
CIDR:           2001:4830:2446::/48
NetName:        TWDX6-2001-4830-2446-1
NetHandle:      NET6-2001-4830-2446-1
Parent:         TWDX-NET6BLK-ARIN-1 (NET6-2001-4830-1)
NetType:        Reassigned
OriginAS:
Organization:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT-2)
RegDate:        2006-05-30
Updated:        2006-05-30
Comment:        occaid L2tpv3 circuit, CFA/LOA @ BSTNMAFR TXNE/125/100
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2001-4830-2446-1

OrgName:        Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OrgId:          MIT-2
Address:        Room W92-167
Address:        77 Massachusetts Avenue
City:           Cambridge
StateProv:      MA
PostalCode:     02139-4307
Country:        US
RegDate:
Updated:        2012-04-27
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/MIT-2

-Alex

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Olivia Brode-Roger <nibr@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> kchen encouraged me to email here, about an issue i had.
>
> Netflix suddenly placed me in Australia for no good reason, this disappeared
> when I forced IPv4 on my machine via this method.
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/440649/how-to-disable-ipv6-in-ubuntu-14-04
>
> My IPv6 was 2001:4830:2446:ee:a10a:67e3:a20c:1d90 and IPv4 18.238.5.157.
>
> Netflix is firmly pointing the finger at MIT and Linux (i'm using
> debathena), but i think they're wrong.
>
> Thoughts?
> Olivia

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