On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> What is non-standard about an HE tunnel? It conforms to the relevant RFCs >> and >> is a very common configuration widely deployed to many thousands of >> locations >> around the internet. >> >> Itÿÿs not that Netflix happens to not work with these tunnels, the problem >> is >> that they are taking deliberate active steps to specifically block them. > > > It's not a question of standard vs non-standard. If Netflix is blocking HE > IPv6 space (tunnel customers), I suspect they're doing so because this is > effectively an IPv6 VPN service that masks the end-user's real IP making > invalid any IP-based GEO assumptions Netflix would like to make about > customer connections in order to satisfy their content licenses. >
Yes, it's just Netflix being super aggressive about blocking VPNs. They're basically removing access from any sort of service that can be used to tunnel.