Hey guys,
I selfhost a server at home where I run a couple of services. Wireguard is one of them. I also have another house where I live every couple of weeks for a few days. Netflix blocked me on the second house for account sharing. As I run my own wireguard and the tv in the second house runs AndroidTV I created a wireguard config (I run wg-easy) and installed the official Wireguard app on AndroidTV. Sadly netflix still blocks me which is weird because all traffic of that tv seems to be running over the tunnel.

Here is the config:

` [Interface] PrivateKey = XXX Address = 10.8.0.3/24 DNS = 1.1.1.1 MTU = 1420

[Peer] PublicKey = XXX PresharedKey = XXX AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0 PersistentKeepalive = 0 Endpoint = vpn.XXXde:51820 `

I also posted this on reddit selfhosted where it sadly got removed. Some suggestions were that somehow DNS requests or IPv6 traffic still got through without using the wireguard tunnel which doesn’t make much sense because usually the wireguard app puts everything through the tunnel.
I also edited the conf to also tunnel all ipv6 traffic with adding ::/0 under allowed IPs but that also didn’t resolved the problem.
Is there anything else I could try? Are there different solutions? I’m aware that there are other approaches to this problem (using Jellyfin) but I really want to figure out this problem as it doesn’t make any sense to me. The whole traffic should be going over my home server and it seems it doesn’t.
Has anyone gotten this kind of setup to work?

Thanks for any help, have a good day!

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Did you try Netflix in the browser to rule out an issue with the app.

    I have adguard home on my server and have the server wireguard IP as the DNS ip too so I can see all the DNS requests my devices make and block stuff. I disable ipv6 myself to keep things simpler.

    It should work for you though.

    Another option they can’t detect is use a router with a wireguard connection, then Netflix can go suck a lemon 🍋😉

    Edit: Perhaps they are doing some timing on your connections and there is a difference between your primary connection and the VPN one .

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      1 year ago

      If Netflix is denying you access to the subscription you pay for because you’re using a VPN to connect, that starts to smell like a good class action to me.

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    1 year ago

    At the second home with the TV not working, I’d.suggest testing out wireguard on a PC that hasn’t been used with Netflix yet and see if it has the issue too. This would also be easier to troubleshoot to find the root issue if it fails on the PC too.

    • MoshpitDaddy@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      This would be complicated as you can use the Netflix service on a new device for at least 30 days without issues

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        1 year ago

        It’s probably cache or cookies. Netflix browser in private browsing would be a new session.

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    8 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
    UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
    VPN Virtual Private Network

    6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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    Definitely complicated to root cause. Please share if ya figure out the hard parts 😄

    An idea: Netflix could be fingerprinting TUN interfaces on the TV.

    One thing I’d consider trying is Tailscale in userspace networking mode on a distinct network host at location 2, which’ll start a SOCKS/HTTP proxy that the TV can use for outbound connections.

    Bonus: any devices incompatible with Tailscale can use the proxies.

    If you’d like to take a stab at this, Headscale is a self-hosted version of Tailscale’s service. Personally, I use Caddy to automatically manage letsencrypt certs while proxying requests to Headscale.

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    I don’t know what Netflix takes into account for that. Might it be a different SSID on the Wi-fi? Or geolocation stuff?

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    8 months ago

    Did you solve it? I am in the same situation and nothing seems to help… Maybe wireguard, being inside a docker bridge network, isn’t forwarding correctly IPV6 packets. Or maybe Netflix checks more than just the public IP