• Registered: 2011-04-27
  • Posts: 9

Topic: Hulu outside the US

I live in NZ and this works for me. It is great to be able to watch all the US at home.
Credit for this goes to liganic, a poster on reddit.

users just need:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 1935 -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 1935 -j DROP

iptables -I INPUT -s 206.33.62.126 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 198.78.201.126 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 207.109.221.177 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 207.109.221.184 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 4.23.49.125 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP
It's more of a sledgehammer approach but works.

Apparently it can mess some other vid sites up, it didn't for me, so the undo is:
iptables -F
will flush your chains. You can check that with
iptables -L
Also note that the chain doesn't get stored between reboots (unless you do so by activating the corresponding service)

Enjoy

PS it will still throw up a "you are out side the US message" but it works anyway.

EDIT: it made my video go all choppy but a restart fixed it and I am not even sure it wasn't a flash FU.
@Helpful people. Interesting! I will check these out. I want to be able to watch BBC content and US stuff. Why should I be punished for not being from those places, I wonder? I am sure there will be a reason of feeble value but I am an internet user. I demand unreasonable things all the time smile

Last edited by Rubinski (2011-05-03 11:05:14)

  • Registered: 2011-02-08
  • Posts: 516

Re: Hulu outside the US

I don't know about that method, but you can also try ToR...which lets you switch around IPs
http://www.torproject.org/

I used something like it for windows, called hotspot shield when I was in Spain and wanted to watch netflix.

  • From: forest town, lake land
  • Registered: 2011-02-26
  • Posts: 358

Re: Hulu outside the US

I just use a US VPN account. $5 bucks a month to bypass all the stupid location checks so many media sites have these days. I use Tunnlr, they let you try for free for 3 months. Also check out their other project devio.us, where you can get a free OpenBSD shell account to play with.

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