I love knowing smart people. Yes, it does appear to be Netflix geo-fencing their services. Given that I only watch Netflix on one computer, I am taking Sebastian's advice and turning off IPv6 DNS queries in Firefox.
Thanks again for these responses. Rich > On Mar 21, 2020, at 6:14 PM, Sebastian Moeller <moell...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > since it seems to be IPv6 related, why not use firefox for netflix and > disable IPv6 in firefox (see > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-cant-load-websites-other-browsers-can#w_ipv6) > maybe that works well enough? > > Best Regards > Sebastian > > > > >> On Mar 21, 2020, at 21:20, Rich Brown <richb.hano...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> to Bloat & CeroWrt folks: This is a little OT for either of these lists, but >> I figured there are plenty of experts here, and I would be delighted to get >> your thoughts. >> >> I just tried to view a Netflix movie and got a F7111-5059 error message. >> This prevented the video from playing. (As recently as a month or two ago, >> it worked fine.) >> >> Googling the error message gets to this page >> https://help.netflix.com/en/node/54085 that singles out use of an IPv6 Proxy >> Tunnel. >> >> Sure enough, I'm have a 6in4 tunnel through Hurricane Electric on WAN6. >> Stopping that WAN6 interface caused Netflix to work. >> >> What advice could you offer? (I could, of course, turn off WAN6 to watch >> movies. But that's a drag, and other family members couldn't do this.) Many >> thanks. >> >> Rich >> _______________________________________________ >> Bloat mailing list >> Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat > _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
