Tim, I'll get you off-list.
- Jared
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:37:44AM -0500, Tim Nowaczyk wrote:
> Hey NANOG,
>
> We have seen an issue where our customers who have IP addresses that are
> directly allocated to us can play online multiplayer games (NBA2k, NBA2k21,
> Fallout 76, and Stardew Valley were mentioned specifically) but when they
> have an IP that was reallocated to us by one of our Upstreams (Server
> Central), these games no longer work. I know NBA2k is behind Prolexic, but
> not sure about the others. 2k Games says that we, the ISP, must be blocking
> something, but there’s absolutely no difference in how data moves from our
> internet edge to the customer whether they have one of our IPs or one of the
> reallocated ones. We noticed that one geocoding provider has our reallocated
> IPs flagged as “hosting” IPs and maybe 2k is using some metadata like that to
> block our IPs.
>
> Does anyone have a contact at Prolexic who might be able to help?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Nowaczyk
>
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