Clients, servers, here, there. (Was Re: [CLUE-Tech] MySQL GUI client)

[Cyberclops]

I typed that and the results were interesting it says:

Server: techanglegw9.verioco.com
Address: 199.239.19.9

Name: localhost.hawaii.rr.com
Address: 127.0.0.1

I don't remember naming my computer "hawaii.rr.com"
that the email address that I use even though I'm connected to the web
through techangle.

I'm still wondering why I have an FTP port open.  Can you tell me what
to type on my own machine to try to find out what it might be?  Can I
look at the process management tool to try to figure it out?

David Anselmi wrote:
> 
> Amazing what you take for granted after doing this for a while, isn't it?
> Here are some links:
> 
> client/server
> http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci211796,00.html
> 
> host
> http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci212254,00.html
> 
> No entries for localhost, but here's some elaboration.  Sense 1) of host
> (above) is a node on the Internet.  That means the machine has an IP address,
> and (usually) a name that maps to the IP address through DNS.  So a local
> host is one that is 'here' and a remote host is one that is 'there'.  I would
> say that the distance between 'here' and 'there' depends on context and is
> usually fairly irrelevant.
> 
> On the other hand, localhost is Unix shorthand for 'this machine that's
> processing for me'.  If I type 'nslookup localhost' then localhost will be
> the machine that runs the nslookup program (I can telnet from one machine to
> another, to another, so that the characters I type go through many machines
> (hosts), but only one will run the nslookup program).
> 
> Clear as mud, right?
> 
> Dave
> 
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