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

[Brandon N]

bneill at colorado:~/mhz$ telnet 199.239.19.9 21
Trying 199.239.19.9...
Connected to 199.239.19.9.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.0 Server (FTP SERVER) [ta10]


If you have ftp commented out of inetd.conf, then it is running on it's
own.

Brandon
--- Cyberclops <Cyberclops at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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