On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:36:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been reading the documentation on amanda.org, and it seems the > authors have this terminology flipped. Servers always passively > *listen* for a connection, while clients are active initiators. In > the Amanda model, the centralized backup host is actually a *client*, > because it's the active "consumer" that initiates connections, whereas > all the nodes on the network that have data to backup are servers > listening for a client - and serving the data on request. > > I find it confusing to read the Amanda documentation, because it > appears the Amanda Core Team is calling the server a "client", and > vice versa.
You are trying for absolutes and there are precious few. Another example of a "server" initiating the connection is the X server when it initiates the connection with X terminals or PC serving as X terminals using the XDMCP protocol. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
