In an attempt to stop piracy in football, Movistar blocked the media Internet

If you are a client of O2 or Movistar, you may have problems with access to several websites this weekend. The truth is that this is not just a thing of these last three days, and given the doubts of many users and the lack of information from the operator, from Bandancha They found what the reason was.

The truth is that the main problem was that U2 and Movistar users, They had many problems on weekends to use the Internet, which uses Cloudflare technologyWhat suggests, de -factor that access to all types of websites was limited. The main reason is associated with piracy, and especially, basically affects legal users. In fact, this influenced the wide range of IP -addresses of the Cloudflare network.

For those who do not know Cloudflare, it is the American company that provides CDNS, Internet security services and DNS. In fact, this is one of the market leaders, so its services are widely used on the main website of the world, including a corporate environment or business services such as GitHub, many of Microsoft or Vercel, among other things.

Although it can be the frequency – within the normality – Telefónica, everything seems to indicate that he tried The deliberate block is not completely, but enough to touch on legal sites, blocking certain IPS located in Cloudflare. Some of the checks that they have done from the moment Bandanchademonstrate how to analyze IP how 104.21.48.1belonging to Cloudflare and is used to serve hundreds of websites, which have the same IP -open, from Movistar Connect 104.21.48.1 This is prompt.

Movistar Block influenced many Cloudflare sites

And from another operator? From orange football piracy. But in the case of Movistar, The block also expanded to all services used by the same IPSlegal or not. Block, which, according to BandanchaEvery time there is football. Basically, from Movistar they killed flies to the gun.

The problem, which was also aggravated by the implementation of Cloudflare de EHC, the extension of the protocol Https which prevents knowledge of operators systems What is the network really. Not knowing the latter that access to a legal website or not, the blockade is applied to everything.

This locking system, in fact, is quite rude, since only a simple VPN is necessary to skip a blockade. And, since they indicate organisms, such as Laliga, specific IPS to block, the truth is that this does not prevent football piracy at all, but the experience of legal users will be upset.

The operator apologized to many users who complained about social networks. There is doubt about whether the next day that has left, the massive blockade for Cloudflare will be repeated again.