Re: Trouble Playing Multiplayer Games from Reallocated IP Space

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

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On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:37:44AM -0500, Tim Nowaczyk wrote:
> Hey NANOG,
>
> We have seen an issue where our customers who have IP addresses that are directly allocated to us can play online 
> multiplayer games (NBA2k, NBA2k21, Fallout 76, and Stardew Valley were mentioned specifically) but when they have an 
> IP that was reallocated to us by one of our Upstreams (Server Central), these games no longer work. I know NBA2k is 
> behind Prolexic, but not sure about the others. 2k Games says that we, the ISP, must be blocking something, but 
> there’s absolutely no difference in how data moves from our internet edge to the customer whether they have one of 
> our IPs or one of the reallocated ones. We noticed that one geocoding provider has our reallocated IPs flagged as 
> “hosting” IPs and maybe 2k is using some metadata like that to block our IPs.
>
> Does anyone have a contact at Prolexic who might be able to help?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Nowaczyk
>
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