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<blockquote data-quote="supamerz" data-source="post: 235907" data-attributes="member: 106534"><p>Wikipedia is a good place to look those up, but here is a very quick description of each<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />NS: (Domain Name System)&nbsp; This is one of the systems that the internet is built on.&nbsp; DNS helps to translate a hostname (www.espn.com) into an IP address, so that humans don&#039;t have to keep track of them...and so that your computer knows where to go when you type it.NNTP: (Network News Transfer Protocol)&nbsp; Just like it sounds, it helps to transfer data between news servers (enabling Usenet, for example)Proxy: a proxy is an application intermediary.&nbsp; (just like for investor groups...a &quot;proxy vote&quot; is made for you by someone else)&nbsp; Proxies are used for all sorts of things: firewalling/gateway security, web/content filtering, application redirection, etc.&nbsp; There are forward, transparent, and reverse proxies.&nbsp; SQUID, Microsoft ISA, and Blue Coat are the some of the more popular ones.IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol.&nbsp; This is one of many protocols that assists in the local retrieval of email from a remote email server.&nbsp; IMAP and POP are common retrieval protocols, and SMTP is the most common protocol for sending mail.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="supamerz, post: 235907, member: 106534"] Wikipedia is a good place to look those up, but here is a very quick description of each:DNS: (Domain Name System) This is one of the systems that the internet is built on. DNS helps to translate a hostname (www.espn.com) into an IP address, so that humans don't have to keep track of them...and so that your computer knows where to go when you type it.NNTP: (Network News Transfer Protocol) Just like it sounds, it helps to transfer data between news servers (enabling Usenet, for example)Proxy: a proxy is an application intermediary. (just like for investor groups...a "proxy vote" is made for you by someone else) Proxies are used for all sorts of things: firewalling/gateway security, web/content filtering, application redirection, etc. There are forward, transparent, and reverse proxies. SQUID, Microsoft ISA, and Blue Coat are the some of the more popular ones.IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol. This is one of many protocols that assists in the local retrieval of email from a remote email server. IMAP and POP are common retrieval protocols, and SMTP is the most common protocol for sending mail. [/QUOTE]

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