Difference between revisions of "Host"
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==Client host== | ==Client host== | ||
| − | However, any computer connected to the Internet may be considered a host. A home computer | + | However, any computer connected to the Internet may be considered a host. A home computer running an application, called a [[client]], that accesses services on a remote computer is also a host. This could for example be a personal computer running a [[web browser]] to access [[web server]]s on the Internet. |
==IP address== | ==IP address== | ||
