Chapter 31. How Telnet Works
One of the more remarkable features of the Internet is the way it lets you use the resources of a distant computer somewhere else in the world. From your own home or office, you can log on to another computer, issue commands just as if you were at that computer’s keyboard, and then gain access to all the computer’s resources. You do this with an Internet resource called Telnet. Telnet follows a client/server model, which means that you run a piece of software on your own PC (the client) to use the resources of a distant server computer. This distant computer is called the host.
The host allows many clients ...
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