Awesome thanks for the tip with dnsmasq. -- Kind Regards,
Christopher Barnes e. [email protected] On 14/08/2014 6:51 PM, "Michael Chesterton" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/08/14 09:44, Chris Barnes wrote: > > Hi Christopher, > > > > So that works perfectly for Netflix because any part of that service that > > cares about Geolocation is in the Netflix domain. > > > > Hulu on the other hand, has services that are outside of the Hulu domain > > that take issue with my location - a248.e.akamai.net. > > > > > > you might be wondering why i dont just use a VPN? > > > > Well I dont want to tunnel all streaming traffic accross it and Netflix > > doesnt require all connections to be from the U.S. Only when you browse > the > > Netflix catalog and when you chose a show/movie to watch does the service > > check location, after that the web browser, Apple TV, other media device > is > > redirected to a CDN to stream the content. and that CDN doesnt care > where I > > am from. So I get better throughput by not tunnelling the video stream. > > > > > > Now a hosts file would fix this problem very nicely.....but Apple TV > doesnt > > have a hosts that is accessible and thats where I do most my streaming > from. > > > > Interestingly, I can watch Hulu on my PC with my current setup with zero > > problems. Its when I try on the Apple TV that it talks to > a248.e.akamai.net > > and throws an error that I'm outside the U.S. > > > > I believe dnsmasq lets you change host addresses of single hosts in > a large domain with a 1 line entry, not a bind solution, but it's really > easy to do with dnsmasq, i have no idea how to do it with bind. > > dnsmasq has this functionality for things like blocking ads, but you > can use it for any purpose > > # Add domains which you want to force to an IP address here. > # The example below send any host in double-click.net to a local > # web-server. > #address=/double-click.net/127.0.0.1 > > # --address (and --server) work with IPv6 addresses too. > #address=/www.thekelleys.org.uk/fe80::20d:60ff:fe36:f83 > > # Add the IPs of all queries to yahoo.com, google.com, and their > # subdomains to the vpn and search ipsets: > #ipset=/yahoo.com/google.com/vpn,search > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
