so…a very annoying thing happened yesterday
opened max app (HBO), and it said max is not available in my region
long story short…marshnet has been IPv6 enabled since 2010 using hurricane electric tunnelbroker
welp…Max has decided that tunnel is an attempt to bypass their georestrictions, and any IPv6 connection I make to em results in content not available
so I did some DNS chicanery to force all discomax dot com hosts to resolve via v4 only
will write it up if anyone cares…
🙄😡
@opie
Understand all that, what I'm not clear on is exactly what Max's servers are seeing that's running afoul - the tunnel itself or the v6 connection.
because my v6 addresses are associated with an HE tunnel, they're treating it like I'm using a VPN to bypass their georestrictions
@opie
Now I get it. Thanks.
It makes me wonder if I try to access Max through my wireguard tunnel, if I would run into a similar issue? Maybe not, because my tunnel just goes back to my home network so I can have all my filters away from home.
yeah, if max is seeing your local ISP IP addresses, you'll be fine...
they just randomly decided that my HE v6 allocation is "zomg tunnel!!!" 🙄
I am not a fan of the Zaslav regime... 😒
@voltronic
tunnelbroker is for v6...back then, no ISP offered native v6...some still don't...and mostly the way they do kinda sucks
so I have a v4 native connection to my local ISP, and build a v6 tunnel to HE (over v4...it's a 6in4 tunnel)
everything on the network is dual stack, and prefers v6...which resulted in max saying their service isn't available in my "area"...
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