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Strange problems accessing Netflix images



David Kramer wrote:
> The Netflix website comes up fine, except none of the images come up. 
> This is true ONLY for netflix, and true for every computer in my house. 
>   And this just happened a few days ago (I've been a member for years).
> ...
> It sure looks to me like my cablemodem can reach it, but my server 
> can't, and I don't know why that would be, since my firewall doesn't 
> report anything.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Thanks.

Might be IPV6.  I bet there's a (new) AAAA record for that image server, but
not the main netflix, and something with IPV6 doesn't work end-to-end.

Try opening "about:config" in Firefox and changing this setting to 'true':
  network.dns.disableIPv6

HTH,
Matt






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