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jamesmacwhite / Workarounds for Netflix and the blocking of IPv6 tunnels.md
Last active July 9, 2026 14:44
Prevent proxy/VPN streaming error messages from Netflix when using a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel.

Workarounds for Netflix and the blocking of Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels

The dreaded "You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy." error message. Cool story bro.

This gist was essentially created out of my own rant about Netflix being hostile to IPv6 tunnel services since June 2016. You are welcome to read my opinion on the matter, this is the more technical side to the issue and how to combat it within your own network.

Since I wrote this, various GitHub users have contributed their thoughts and ideas which has been incorporated into this gist. Thank you to everyone who have contributed their own methods and implementations.

The problem

Netflix now treats IPv6 tunnel brokers (such as Hurricane Electric) as proxy servers. A while ago it became apparent to users and Netflix that somewhat by accident, IPv6 tunnel users were being served content outside of their geolocation because of the way Netflix was identifyi

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voxxit / RUNBOOK.md
Created April 29, 2016 14:26
Example of a solid run book/operations manual

Run Book / Operations Manual

  1. Table of Contents
  2. System Overview
    • Service Overview
    • Contributing Applications, Daemons, and Windows Services
    • Hours of Operation
    • Execution Design
    • Infrastructure and Network Design
    • Resilience, Fault Tolerance and High-Availability