Strange problems accessing Netflix images

[david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org (David Kramer)]

David Kramer wrote, On 11/11/2008 03:58 PM:
> 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).
> 
> Note that the images come from cdn-*.nflximg.com (208.111.128.6 and 
> 208.111.128.7), not netflix.com.
> 
> If I try to wget an image, it hangs.  Looking at Wireshark as I do so 
> shows a bunch of outgoing packets, but nothing coming back.
> 
> If I traceroute it, I get two hops, then stars for the next 26 lines
>   1  * * *
>   2  68.85.185.53 (68.85.185.53)  10.819 ms  14.050 ms  15.021 ms
>   3  te-5-1-ar02.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net (68.87.145.161)  15.965 
> ms  16.843 ms *
>   4  * * *
> ...
> 29  * * *
> 30  * * *
> 
> I checked my cablemodem (SMC-8014), and it doesn't show any website 
> blocking, etc.  When I use the web-based interface to my cablemodem to 
> traceroute it, I get
> Tracing route to 208.111.128.6 over a maximum of 30 hops
>   1:   15 ms,  <10 ms,  <10 ms, 0.0.0.0
>   2:  <10 ms,  <10 ms,  <10 ms, 68.85.185.49
>   3:  <10 ms,  <10 ms,  <10 ms, 68.87.145.161
>   4:   15 ms,  <10 ms,   15 ms, 68.85.162.70
>   5:   15 ms,   20 ms,   15 ms, 68.86.90.61
>   6:   15 ms,   15 ms,   15 ms, 64.210.15.57
>   7:   15 ms,   20 ms,   30 ms, 64.208.222.150
>   8:   15 ms,   15 ms,   25 ms, 69.28.171.201
>   9:   15 ms,   15 ms,   40 ms, 208.111.128.6
> 10:    *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 11:    *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 12:    *        *        *     Request timed out.

On a whim, I tried rebooting said cablemodem, and now I can get to the
Netflix images just fine.  There doesn't seem to be any IP blocking
rules in it, so I'm not sure how this could have happened, except rule #15

http://middleman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Moscow_Rules