Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle!

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

In general, my experience with IP Geolocation has been that it’s slightly worse than a bad idea, yet that ship has 
sailed and like Windows, there are way too many entrenched applications using it for logic to ever prevail.

I believe Amazon runs their own detection service for this and IIRC, they do sell it. I forget the name under which it 
is marked, but it may well be that they are the common denominator culprit for all 5 you show there.

The good news is if you can get any one of them to fix it, it will likely resolve them all.

Owen


> On Aug 31, 2021, at 13:36 , 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:
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> [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