Hi folks. I have an IPSec/L2TP VPN running using a raspberry pi in my home to allow me to access files/browse safely on public WiFi while I’m away from home. Currently, I’m in Mexico and wanted to watch DirecTV NOW DVR recordings on my iPhone so I signed into my VPN and all is well. But when I go to watch a recording, it says it’s not allowed in my location. I was under the impression that all my traffic should be tunneled through my home network and DirecTV Now would only be able to see that traffic is coming and going through my home. How does DirecTV know otherwise? I understand that Netflix, Hulu, etc have algorithms to detect popular VPN servers, but this is just my home. I’m certainly on my home network with the VPN running as I can access files, have an IP address that matches my home location, and in the past when originally testing, everything was indeed being encrypted. Aren’t any VPN headers stripped once my traffic originating in Mexico reaches my home network before being forwarded to Directv?
Can anybody explain what I’m missing here? Thanks experts!
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