Summary

In this chapter, you learned that the software running on a computer establishes its role as the server. A server can provide a variety of services to a network's clients, including: application servers, file servers, mail servers, messaging servers, network servers, print servers, RRAS, and web servers. The different types of application servers are LAN application servers: query-based application servers, and application/web servers. A file server is either dedicated or non-dedicated. Network services servers provide core services on the OSI application layer. Although the NOS provides many network services and protocols, services such as the DNS, DHCP, IM, VoIP, and NTP may come from a network services server. Proxy servers are intermediate network servers that accept, fulfill, filter, and forward requests from remote clients. The types of proxy servers are: gateway...