MAIL SERVER - An E-Mail server is a computer which holds electronic mail messages and attachments and also sends out the mail and attachments. These messages and attachments can be accessed with an e-mail client from the server itself, or from another computer. Sometimes the term can refer to the actual mail server or software like Eudora or Outlook Express.
At school, we have a separate mail server which services the whole district. The district supports Eudora in using the mail server.
For information on two widely used mail programs that are used to retrieve information from mail servers, click on the links below:
http://www.eudora.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/oe/
WEB SERVER - A computer that provides World Wide Web services on the Internet. Any computer can be made into a web server if it has server software and is connected to the Internet. Once connected, this server can provide Internet service to one computer to many. It includes the hardware, operating system, Web server software, TCP/IP protocols and the Web site content (Web pages). Every web server has an IP address and domain name.
Our district has its' own web server, and the recommended software that we use while connecting to it is Netscape.
For more information on servers, look at the following sites:
ServerWatch.com - http://serverwatch.internet.com/home.html - A comprehensive guide to news, reviews, and server downloads.
WebServer.com - http://webcompare.internet.com/ - A detailed guide to features and specifications of servers.
An article in Boardwatch features a complete guide in how to set up a server - http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/97/feb/bwm39.html
MX SERVER - An MX server can be a “store and forward” server, not necessarily a server that will deliver the mail to the individuals directly. An MX host is someone on the [Inter/Intra]network that has agreed to accept mail for your domain if you cannot be reached. That server will then eventually forward the mail onto you for final delivery.
For example if our mail server is down, messages can be forwarded to a MX server until the messages can be delivered to our server.
There are certain forms of MX servers such as the:
NetPoint.MX - http://ipw.internet.com/communication/e-mail/916161138.html
Here are normal client/server operation guidelines for MX servers:
http://www.imca.aps.anl.gov/~lavender/mx/manual/client_server_operation.html
IP ADDRESS - IP addresses are given to allow Internet information (from Web pages to e-mail) to be delivered correctly. To the Internet, a given server's IP address is all numbers and dots in the format "000.000.000.0," IP numeric addresses also have a textual representation. The usual format is [machine name].[sponsoring organization].[type of organization, such as ".com"].
Alot of times my students will be surfing the Internet and ask why they suddenly saw their web page name turn into numbers at the bottom of the browser window, this is why!
Here is a more detailed article on IP Addresses:
http://www.3com.com/nsc/501302.html
TAPE BACKUP - Tape backup is just one storage/retrieval system. This is a secondary storage system that system administrators may use to store information that would be crucial if the server crashed. Tape drives have data capacities of anywhere from a few hundred kilobytes to several gigabytes.
Our system administrator does biweekly back-ups, however this can vary from administrator to administrator.
For an example of a company that promotes tape backups' follow this link:
10 MBPS CONNECTION/100 MBPS CONNECTION -MPBS is short for megabits per second, a measure of data transfer speed. Networks, for example, are generally measured in MBPS. 10 and 100 relate to the connection speed, with 10 being slow and 100 being fast.
Here is a guide to 10 MBPS systems - http://www.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/descript-10quickref.html
and one to 100 MBPS systems - http://www.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/descript-100quickref.html
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