On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:36:36PM -0700, mindfuq AT verizon DOT net 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.

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