Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle!

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

You just broke 99% of the smart television sets in people’s homes, unfortunately.

That will resolve itself over time, of course, as sets are replaced, but anyone with
a set that is more than ~3 years old is mostly unlikely to have IPv6 support in it and
the vendors are ALL universally terrible about updating firmware.

As much as I like the idea (and that if a sufficient number of providers were willing
to do so, it might just serve as a forcing function to get firmware updates done),
I wouldn’t hold my breath and I suspect where there are competitive alternatives,
such a notice would be a boon to the competition.

Owen


> On Aug 31, 2021, at 15:15 , Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:
>
> Force the traffic to these companies to use IPv6.  Advise your customers that
> you are doing this, why you are doing this and what steps they need to take
> to enable IPv6 on their equipment. Your customers can’t be in a worse position.
>
> "Dear customer,
>              if you want to reach … you will need to enable IPv6 support in
> your home network.  The world ran out of enough IPv4 for everyone several years
> back and we have been sharing IPv4 between customers to allow you to reach IPv4
> only sites.  The afore mentioned companies are now blocking IPv4 connections from
> ISPs that have to share IPv4 addresses.  To give you a better service we are
> blocking IPv4 connections to these companies so you will get a more reliable service
> over IPv6.
>
> For instructions on how to enable IPv6 connectivity on you home router see this
> page ….
>
> If your home router does not support IPv6 you will need to upgrade it to one that does."
>
> > On 1 Sep 2021, at 06:36, Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Owen ... good point.
> >
> > Now hearing reports for these same prefixes with Disney+ too.
> >
> > So the common denominators are:
> >
> > HBO
> > Hulu
> > Netflix
> > Amazon Prime
> > Disney+
> >
> > ... there has _got_ to be some new-fangled DB somewhere. This all started in the last month or so.
> >
> > All of our RR objects, whois, DNS is solid ... dehr?
> >
> > Fun times.
> >
> >
> > On 8/31/21 9:16 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Geolocate and VPN or Not are often kind of tied to the same kinds of reporting services and it may well be that 
> > > whatever provider HBO is using for one is also being used for the other.
> > > Owen
>
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