I have had IPv6 for a while via HE.net, but last year BT got around
to enabling IPv6 on my broadband (they also sneakily kept putting the
price up).
In the search for value I switched to PlusNet (Which!
recomended for customer service in the past). Unfortunately PlusNet
don't give you IPv6 (historically they have been pretty shit about
moving with the times, and in the case of IPv6 they have gone
backwards).
I connected my He.Net IPv6 tunnel back up to my router
(LEDE if you're interested on BT Home Hub 5, so I have control of the
DNS).
Around that time I also got a free netflix subscription and
Microsoft (who I work for: disclaimer) also started offering reward
points for searches.
Netflix just didn't work; I searched for why
and found people had already fixed the issue in a few different ways,
but then I realised that my Bing searches kept returning distinctly US
looking results (especially the opening page of Bing), and more recently
I stopped getting points for the quizes and the searches.
Some
quick Wireshark tracing showed that Azure traffic manager was directing
my IPv6 http connection towards US Bing not UK Bing.
Here is my
fix, set dnsmasq on the router to blackhole AAAA (ipv6 address queries)
for Bing (like we do for Netflix. It took a bit of investigation but
this seeems to work for me:
# Null AAAA response
server=/bing.com/#
address=/bing.com/::
server=/trafficmanager.net/#
address=/trafficmanager.net/::
server=/a-msedge.net/#
address=/a-msedge.net/::
The
lines ending with hashes tell dnsmasq to look up these records itself
rather than returning a forward, and those ending :: return a duff IPv6
record for the domain triggering the router to do IPv4 lookup. This does
put dns load on the router, but it doesn't seem to mind too much :D
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