[ipv6-wg] Users turning off IPv6 because of YouTube

On 14/01/16 17:14, Ondřej Caletka wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've came across a new reason people are turning off IPv6 on their
> computers. Looks like GeoIP restrictions of YouTube are somehow broken
> making some videos playable over IPv4 but 'not accessible from your
> country' over IPv6.
>
> For example this music video:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44XYEeD1A1U
> is perfectly playable from addresses:
> 147.32.0.0/16 and 195.113.0.0/16
> but not playable from 2001:718::/32
>
> The network is deployed as native dualstack and both address families
> are correctly registered in the RIPE database to Prague.
>
> I guess there's probably nothing we can do from the network operator's
> point of view. Anyone experiencing the same?

No, the video plays fine here from both v4 and v6. It might be worth 
getting in contact with Google to get GeoIP fixed for that allocation.


Timo
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