jamesmacwhite

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

lummie

// I'm forever forgetting to adjust the time zone on my camera when taking pictures on vacation
// this uses the linux exiftool to adjust the timezone -8 hours for all images in a directory

exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal-=0:0:0 8:0:0" *

bnyeggen

import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;

import sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl;
import sun.misc.Unsafe;

@SuppressWarnings("restriction")
public class MMapper {

MikeN123

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocketFactory;

/*
 * Source from Christopher Schultz
 * @see http://markmail.org/message/zn4namfhypyxum23
 */
public class SSLInfo

nogweii

import javax.crypto.Cipher;

class Test {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      System.out.println("Hello World!");
      int maxKeyLen = Cipher.getMaxAllowedKeyLength("AES");
      System.out.println(maxKeyLen);
    } catch (Exception e){
      System.out.println("Sad world :(");

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

orip

import java.lang.reflect.Type;

import android.util.Base64;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;

jonatasnona

$ ssh-keygen -l -f id_rsa.pub
2048 aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99 id_rsa.pub (RSA)

samuellb

diff --git a/src/share/classes/sun/security/ec/NamedCurve.java b/src/share/classes/sun/security/ec/NamedCurve.java
--- a/src/share/classes/sun/security/ec/NamedCurve.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/sun/security/ec/NamedCurve.java
@@ -658,6 +658,133 @@
             0xFF70);
 */
 
+        /* Brainpool curves (RFC 5639) */
+        add("brainpoolP160r1", "1.3.36.3.3.2.8.1.1.1", P,
+            "E95E4A5F737059DC60DFC7AD95B3D8139515620F",

mathiasbynens

/*!
 * Dynamically changing favicons with JavaScript
 * Works in all A-grade browsers except Safari and Internet Explorer
 * Demo: http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/dynamic-favicons
 */

// HTML5™, baby! http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/document-head
document.head || (document.head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]);

function changeFavicon(src) {