I just found out that all xbox live content (but not p2p gaming) is part of iinets 'freezone'. not sure about other isps.

Wow for reals? Why don't they properly publicise something like that?

no wai

sure is
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1090737

oh that's awesome for downloading demos, videos etc!

yeah, i personally will be hammering the content from here on out.

it would be f***ING AWESOME if it supported podcast/video podcasts.

most excellent

I wonder how they do that

wouldn't all the xbox content come from a certain ip range? they could just put that on the 'freezone content comes from here' list.

Yeh but if its anything like any other services on the Internet like that, the IP range would change regularly as they add/remove servers.

Probably some trick with DNS and or Proxy servers. If you know what DNS names the xbox talks to you could log that if you log DNS in your traffic logging, if not, you could re-point the DNS to a proxy server or something that just does passthrough to the real servers and monitor it that way.

Or they could have just called microsoft and asked for the IP ranges of the Xbox live servers.

Yeh but if its anything like any other services on the Internet like that, the IP range would change regularly as they add/remove servers.

Individual IP's might change, but the range would probably stay the same. Especially if they're doing load-balancing, it might only have a single IP address that gets pointed to and the load-balancers take care of the rest.

they might have a deal with XBL to supply them with a subnet range real-time (even an XML file somewhere they can wget regularly?)
actually thats not overly likely because they're in bed with apple on the free itunes traffic deal

layer 7 filtering would work too, albeit a bit slower but you could use it to identify sources
port based maybe?

shrugs, im sure they've got their voodoo ways


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