This is a DNS server that intentionally returns an empty result set for any AAAA query for netflix.com or any subdomain thereof. The intent is to force Netflix to use IPv4 in cases where Netflix has blocked IPv6 access -- specifically, for Hurricane Electric users who find Netflix giving them the error:
You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy. Please turn off any of these services and try again. For more help, visit netflix.com/proxy.
Note that this server does not in any way circumvent Netflix's block against these IPv6 address ranges; all it does is force Netflix to use the IPv4 Internet.
I also considered null-routing the Netflix IPv6 address ranges, but many (all?) Netflix services are deployed in Amazon Web Services, so there's no good way to reliably null-route Netflix without null-routing all of AWS. Dealing with the problem in the DNS process allows us to precisely block exactly what we want blocked (*.netflix.com) and nothing that we don't want blocked.
The only dependency is Twisted Names for Python.
Open server.py and configure the OPTIONS dict according to the comments.
Here you will be able to configure which address and port this server binds to,
as well as which DNS server it will forward requests to.
Note that if you are using dnsmasq and its built-in DHCP server, and you
reconfigure it to listen on a port other than 53 for DNS, it will stop
advertising itself as a DNS server to DHCP clients. Put dhcp-option=6,$IP in
dnsmasq.conf (changing $IP to the server's LAN IP) to fix this. Note that
this will not work when dnsmasq is serving multiple different DHCP ranges,
unless you use an IP address that is reachable from all of those networks.
Clone this repository into /opt/fix-netflix-dns. (You can clone as any user,
but the server must be run as root in order to bind to port 53.)
Run the following commands to install the systemd service:
cd /etc/systemd/system
ln -s /opt/fix-netflix-dns/fix-netflix-dns.service
systemctl enable fix-netflix-dns.service
systemctl start fix-netflix-dns.service