We got blocks too...

Regards,
Chuck

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net>
wrote:

> How?
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> I asked ARIN if I could TRANSITION my current allocation from my current
> provider and they denied.
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> So it wasn’t even for a new block, just to ‘move’ off the current one.
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> Same thing in reality though since the data center wasn’t likely to return
> those IPs to anyone anyways.
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> This was maybe October last year.
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> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 11:01 PM
>
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Great, now Netflix customers are calling ME for
> blocked Netflix
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>
> I got a v4 block in May 2015...
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> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
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>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net>
> wrote:
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> Yeah, I wish I could get IPv4.
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> But I can’t.
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> ARIN won’t give it to me, this fiber company started in 2013 so there was
> no way to obtain it.
>
> I have IPv6 assigned ARIN space, so I guess I’ll start using that as much
> as possible to avoid crap like this.
>
> I’m sure that comes with its own problems though.
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> I can get all the cheap IPv4 I want from this data center.
>
> But the IP space probably originally came from Saudi Arabia or some
> foreign country, lol!
>
>
>
> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Kuhnke
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:14 PM
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Great, now Netflix customers are calling ME for
> blocked Netflix
>
>
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> Netflix is dramatically less likely to blacklist your blocks (AND take
> your correspondence seriously) if you announce your own IP space. From
> Netflix's perspective, blocks that are also used by a datacenter/colo space
> are more likely to contain VPN endpoints.
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> I don't think they care about what the SWIP info shows.
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> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net>
> wrote:
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> It may be that.
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> I get my IPv4 from a data center.
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> They are my upstream provider.
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> The blocks are SWIPed to my company though.
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> I had to submit information to Hulu, Vudu, ABC.com and a few others a year
> ago because suddenly they all had me on some unknown blacklist at the same
> time.
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> All of those providers have now white-listed my blocks and I no longer
> have issues (except maybe Vudu, who were really hard to get that done).
>
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> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Ken Hohhof
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 7:22 PM
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Great, now Netflix customers are calling ME for
> blocked Netflix
>
>
>
> If you don’t have direct allocation from ARIN, where are your blocks
> from?  That may be part of the story.
>
>
>
> *From:* Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net>
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 7:56 PM
>
> *To:* af@afmug.com
>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Great, now Netflix customers are calling ME for
> blocked Netflix
>
>
>
> Except that I’m not on VPN or proxy.
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> So they have wrongly allocated or listed my blocks as proxy/VPN.
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> Doesn’t that break net neutrality for me?
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> Not that the FCC is going to do anything about it.
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> I just got off the phone. They asked me to email them my ASN, upstream and
> details.
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> Hopefully they pull their heads out and get this working.
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> Not like I can request a IPv4 block directly from ARIN.
>
> I DID that and they denied saying they have no more.
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> So I’m stuck without their help.
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> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On
> Behalf Of *timothy steele
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 6:48 PM
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Great, now Netflix customers are calling ME for
> blocked Netflix
>
>
>
> Netflix is working on banning all proxy and most VPN users was on Engadget
> over a month ago there content providers are forcing  them so when there
> telling you nothing they can do to help there telling the truth
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016, 8:37 PM Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote:
>
> Also reach out to Netflix on twitter, tell them you are a US ISP and your
> users are having issues watching content
>
> On Jan 19, 2016 7:25 PM, "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>
> wrote:
>
> Try NANOG?
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> On Jan 19, 2016 8:23 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net> wrote:
>
> Anyone else start getting these calls today?
>
> My personal Netflix, on the same public IP block, seems to still work.
>
> But several of my customers are now calling in saying their Netflix is
> VPN, Proxy or using an Unblocker.
>
> Netflix is denying any sort of fix or solution for these customers,
> blaming it on the ISP.
>
> I'm sick of this crap.
>
> The customers don't care, they will just drop the ISP and get another,
> probably with IP blocks that aren't 'blacklisted' as VPN, or going through
> a datacenter.
>
> I had the same problem with Hulu, Vudu, ABC.com Disney.com and several
> others.
>
> Fortunately, all of those companies, except Vudu, fixed my problem by
> whitelisting my IPs.
>
> Vudu took a long time but I think I finally got a hold of the correct team
> of engineers and they fixed it.
>
> On the phone now with Netflix rep and one of her first questions was,
> "What is a public IP block?"
>
> :(
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