XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:35:17 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:   
      
   > Splitting hairs, maybe, ..... but I would have thought LAN was with-in a   
   > House, WAN was with-in a (commercial) Building, maybe .... and Internet   
   > was the outside world!!   
      
   The Internet is a WAN but a WAN is not necessarily the Internet. Consider   
   VPNs and leased lines if you want another rabbit hole to fall into. How a   
   T1 leased line works is enough to make my head hurt.  Conceptually VPNs   
   are easier to understand. They're Russian dolls, packets within packets   
   with the outermost packet being publically routable between gateways that   
   can do the address translation.   
      
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