May 15, 2003

server

n.

A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the requestor/client runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with web servers, name servers, domain servers, ‘news servers’, finger servers, and the like.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:30 AM

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