| 词条 | Host (network) |
| 释义 |
A network host is a computer or other device connected to a computer network. A network host may offer information resources, services, and applications to users or other nodes on the network. A network host is a network node that is assigned a network address. A computers participating in networks that use the Internet protocol suite may also be called an IP host. Specifically, computers participating in the Internet are called Internet hosts, sometimes Internet nodes. Internet hosts and other IP hosts have one or more IP addresses assigned to their network interfaces. The addresses are configured either manually by an administrator, automatically at startup by means of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), or by stateless address autoconfiguration methods. Network hosts that participate in applications that use the client-server model of computing, are classified as server or client systems. Network hosts may also function as nodes in peer-to-peer applications, in which all nodes share and consume resources in an equipotent manner. OriginsIn operating systems, the term terminal host denotes a time-sharing computer or multi-user software providing services to computer terminals, or a computer that provides services to smaller or less capable devices,[1] such as a mainframe computer serving teletype terminals or video terminals. Other examples of this architecture include a telnet host connected to a telnet server and an xhost connected to an X Window client. The term Internet host or just host is used in a number of Request for Comments (RFC) documents that define the Internet and its predecessor, the ARPANET. RFC 871 defines a host as a general-purpose computer system connected to a communications network for "... the purpose of achieving resource sharing amongst the participating operating systems..."[2] While the ARPANET was being developed, computers connected to the network were typically mainframe computer systems that could be accessed from dumb terminals connected via serial ports. Since these terminals did not host software or perform computations themselves, they were not considered hosts as they were not connected to any IP network, and were not assigned IP addresses. Servers and nodesAll servers are hosts, but not all hosts are servers. Any device that has established a connection to a network qualifies as a host, whereas only hosts that accept connections from other devices (clients) qualify as servers. Every network host is a network node, but not every network node is a host. Networking hardware such as modems, hubs and network switches are not necessarily assigned network addresses (except sometimes for administrative purposes), and consequently may not be considered to be network hosts. See also{{Portal|Computer networking}}
References1. ^{{cite book |author=E. Garrison Walters |url=https://books.google.com/?id=AwrQsOW5SsQC&pg=PA149&dq=terminal+%22host+%22+a+multi-user#v=onepage&q=multi-user%20host&f=false |title=The essential guide to computing] |page=149 |publisher=Prentice Hall PTR |date=2001 |isbn=9780130194695}} 2. ^{{cite IETF |rfc=871 |title=A Perspective on the ARPANET Reference Model |author=M.A. Padlipsky |date=September 1982}} 1 : Networking hardware |
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