[Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] OT: Netflix vs 6in4 from HE.net

[David P. Reed]

This might turn out to be a problem for me - I have a "smart TV" that I watch Netflix on, and it appears to use IPv4. What specifically triggers Netflix to reject specific IPv6 clients? Is it the player's IPv6 address? Is all of he.net's address space blocked?

I've been planning to move more of my home networks to routed IPv6.

In principle, Netflix as a business shouldn't care - it's just doing its best efforts to protect its content's licensing requirements. So if I'm actually in the US, and my net claims correctly to be in US (by whatever trickery I use), neither Netflix nor I am violating any license from a legal point of view.

So all I need to do would be to get a legit US IPv6 address (I have one /64 on a public cloud server), and tunnel it to my house and give it to my TV. Not ideal, but until Netflix does its geofencing *correctly* according to the license, rather than according to IP address, I'd say it's a proper thing.



On Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:47pm, "Rich Brown" <richb.hanover at gmail.com> said:

>  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 <moeller0 at 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.hanover at 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
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