Disney+ Geolocation (again)

People can't watch Disney+. Looked at old emails, read them. Checked every geolocation site for my netblocks (which return ok). Emailed to netadmin@disneystreaming.com

They responded with "We do not service these requests via this email".

Now what? Anyone have a secret contact that can actually help?

~Seth

Ugh, they used to.

I can’t stand these consumer-focused organizations that are irresponsible to the greater operator community.

I was told to go to help.disneyplus.com to resolve this, which just gives you the "you're on a VPN" page if you type in "error 73". I called anyway, and as I assumed they can't help me as an ISP calling in. (I did test to confirm with a friend's account but I'm not the account holder.) Even then, that doesn't help the overall "yeah our service works with every major streaming service *except* Disney+, so if you use them you'll have to call to convince them you're not using a VPN."

This isn't even a new network, I've had 74.118.152.0/21 allocated to me since 2005. Why people insist on reinventing the geolocation wheel is beyond me.

~Seth

Did you ask what the correct avenue was? I’m assuming you did. I’m also assuming they were of no additional help.

Specifically for Network Operators, you may email
TechOps-Distribution@disneystreaming.com for technical issues relating
to Disney+. Hope this helps.

Thanks

J

I updated our page. :slight_smile:

< advertisement >

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ymbk-opsawg-finding-geofeeds/

there is a draft-ietf-opsawg-finding-geofeeds as soon as draft
submission opens

randy

From my understanding, they are using each of their respective CDN's

geo-blocking rules. Probably best to contact Akamai, Fastly, Limelight, etc
to make sure your IP ranges are flagged as in the US.

Thanks!

The page: http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/geo-and-vpn/

* sethm@rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen) [Sun 08 Nov 2020, 18:21 CET]:

I've had 74.118.152.0/21 allocated to me since 2005.

So many IPs in possession for so long, yet so little reverse DNS:

* sethm@rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen) [Sun 08 Nov 2020, 18:21 CET]:

I've had 74.118.152.0/21 allocated to me since 2005.

So many IPs in possession for so long, yet so little reverse DNS:
---
$ (for j in `jot 7 2`; do for i in `jot 255`; do host 74.118.15$j.$i; done; done) | grep -c NXDOMAIN
1579
---

Not sure why that's a problem.

And a lame delegation for 159.118.74.in-addr.arpa.

The last /24 is not in use. I've been reserving it since free pool exhaustion in case I can't get more for some unknown reason. I suppose it would still count against me with a whole /24 of NXDOMAIN either way.

Hi Mike,

You may want to add

technical operations services team TechOps-Services@disneystreaming.com

We wrote to the distribution address and they replied forwarding it to services

Brian

Hi Mike,

You may want to add

technical operations services team TechOps-Services@disneystreaming.com

We wrote to the distribution address and they replied forwarding it to services

Brian

Hi Mike,

You may want to add

technical operations services team TechOps-Services@disneystreaming.com

We wrote to the distribution address and they replied forwarding it to services

Brian

In other words: “oops, I shouldn’t have given out the secret e-mail addresses that actually work."

I did try calling, and it's just an end user dead end.

~Seth

Hi Mike,

You may want to add

technical operations services team TechOps-Services@disneystreaming.com

We wrote to the distribution address and they replied forwarding it to services

Brian

When I called the service rep had no idea what to do with an ISP calling in. Said they can't help without a subscriber account, nor escalate or open a ticket.

~Seth

OK so an email address that isn’t supposed to be used but works or a phone call that should be used and is pointless for the purposes of this issue?

OK so an email address that isn’t supposed to be used but works or a phone call that should be used and is pointless for the purposes of this issue?

Are you just asking to confirm this is disney’s position? :joy::joy: it appears so!

As an outsider who lurks and normally sees these issues resolved swiftly off list I find this all fascinating and hilarious.

Who is a manager or high level engineer in charge at Disney streaming? I would like to make fun of them

— Dan