Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

[johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)]

>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.

Nothing whatsoever, but so what?

>Most likely, these steps are being taken at the behest of their content providers,
>but to the best of my knowledge, that is merely speculation so far as I don?t
>believe Netflix themselves have confirmed this. (It?s not unlikely that they are
>unable to do so due to those same content providers likely insisting on these
>requirements being considered proprietary information subject to NDA.)

Of course they are.  Movie licenses are invariably country specific.

R's,
John