XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox
From: Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid
Retirednoguilt wrote:
> On 12/19/2025 8:40 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> Retirednoguilt wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Paul, I'm an end user and your reply lost me. OK, given that "the WAN
>>> address is what the Internet sees for your three machines", I'll modify
>>> my question to: what controls what is seen as my WAN address, my
>>> device, the router providing the connection to my device, or the ISP?
>>
>> To keep things simple, the answer is "the ISP".
>>
>> Your ISP assigns 'your' (probably temporary) IP address to the WAN
>> side of your router. So the outside world - i.e. in this case the
>> website - sees an IP address which is assigned to you by your ISP.
>>
>> The spefic IP address will probably change over time, as it (probably)
>> is a dynamic IP address, but whatever the current IP address is, it will
>> always be in the range of IP addresses which is assigned to your ISP.
>>
>> As to the geolocating/geofencing issue, if I use whatismyipaddress.com,
>> it reports the city of my ISP, but not my city, which is probably some
>> 60km from the ISP's city. But it correctly reports the country (The
>> Netherlands), so a website could do geolocation or/and geofencing based
>> on that.
>>
>>> I assume that since the W in WAN stands for "wide", it's probably not my
>>> device.
>>
>> WAN means Wide Area Network as opposed to LAN (Local Area Network), so
>> simply put, your LAN is your in-house network and the WAN is the
>> outside world.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> [...]
> It does, tremendously. Thank you!
>
Sort of off-topic, but we are encouraged to tack ".invalid" on to the
end of fake addresses - that apparently cuts down network traffic.
HappilyRetired@fakeaddress.com.invalid does have a certain ring to it.
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