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Yes, in the end it just describes a "zone" and back in the old days most if not all small scale deployments just had wan, lan, and a server network.
But what actually matters are rules between the zones. And again back in the days most firewall rules where simply, disallow wan to lan, but trust all lan to "dmz"/server. And between server and lan? Good luck -.-
Tldr old farts rant: please just all it all a "firewall". Be it zone based or otherwise organized....
Please have a look at how indigenous tribes live and cure the sick to get a feeling what it would have might be back 50k+ years.
What I got during Museum visits and talking with people working in academics those people had a pretty good living. Well feed and even major injuries were treated well.
So please come on.
Or something similar. Compare it with his style when he got older. It's related.
Pardon me, but we are talking about homo sapiens here? Those people would be not different then you and me. If you would raise one of their child's today it would just blend in. They were/are the same species then you and me... I just want to say please don't ride that all cavemen were stupid apes train. That boot sailed a long time ago regarding to modern science.
These link local addresses are quiet handy. But sadly the parsing of these with modern browsers is a flame war ever since. I assume that's the reason why we don't see its usage that often.
Another nice use case is to use these link local addresses in cloud environments...
For those you do not like Cisco style for configs.
Or you are certainly to young :) Voting songs and the like on shoutcast/icecast stations via irc was not only common for gamers if my memory serves me well from the earliest 2000ths