RE: Digital Element, Neustar (Transunion) & ipinsight.io

[Jon Lewis via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, Tony Patti via NANOG wrote:

> I may be a corner case, because I have redundant internet circuits at home.
>
> In the context of this construct of "<IP,geo> binding" you describe,
> Netflix says that they MUST be DIFFERENT PHYSICAL ADDRESSES,
> because, you know, the IP addresses of my two circuits at home are DIFFERENT.
>
> As a result, I have to be careful that any devices which accesses Netflix only use one of my two home internet circuits.
> (which kind of defeats the purpose of having redundant internet circuits)

What is this based on?
My first thought was, you're worried Netflix would flag you for account 
sharing if they see the same account used by different IPs, but whatever 
they have for account sharing detection is, I'm pretty sure, not that 
simple.
A lot of IP geo data doesn't even get as specific as physical [street] 
addresses.  i.e. $Work's geofeed only gets as specific as US-state, city. 
For most IP geo consumers, that should be specific enough.

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