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Keywords: host, prerequisites, telnet, foreign, login

any host on the network which you are not presently using.

The host system from which you, as a client, are requesting service.

The system that the Telnet session is going to, from your local host. This is the host running the Telnet server software.

A computer physically removed from your own that you can log in to. See chapter 4 for prerequisites for establishing a remote host.

a different computer attached to your local network or accessible from your network

See foreign host.

Any host on a network except the one at which a particular operator is working.

A Web server on a separate server computer. A remote host is connected to other servers by way of a network connection.

A host you are trying to login to or send mail to.

Any host on the network other than the local host. Also called foreign host. See local host.

A host on the network other than the computer you currently are using.

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Keywords: hostname, dns, fully, computer, qualified

another computer at another location that can be connected to via the Internet.

The fully qualified DNS hostname of the computer on which the browser or client application is running.